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Northeastern Woodlauds Chippewa, Menominee, Iroquois. 



Southeast (Gulf of Mexico) Alabama (Texas), Choctaw (Mississippi), 



Seminole (Florida). 



Northern Plains Sioux, Winnebago, Mandan, Hidatsa.^* 



High Plateau Northern Ute. 



Southern Plains Pawnee, Omaha, Cheyenne, Arapaho." 



Southwest: Pueblo Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, Zufii, Hopi, Santo, 



Domingo." 

 Southwest : Rancheria and Nomad_ Papago, Yuma, Cocopa, Yaqui, Navaho." 



British Columbia Plateau Salish, including Nitinat, and Thompson 



River, 



Northwest Coast Makah, Clayoquot, Quileute, Tsunshian. 



Northern California Valley Maidu. 



Panama Tula Indians of San Bias." 



The Chitimacha Indians in Louisiana were visited but the only 

 surviving members of the tribe did not know any songs. Interesting 

 information concerning the music was obtained, also legends in which 

 songs were formerly introduced. 



The Iroquois records comprise a series of ceremonial songs of the 

 Condoling and Installation Council of the League of the Iroquois, 

 recorded by the late J. N. B. Hewitt. These include the Farewell 

 Chant of the Dead Chief, sung by the people as representing the dead 

 chief, the Eulogy of the Founders of the League, and an interesting 

 song entitled "Over the Great Forest." 



The songs of Indians in Alaska comprise eight songs obtained at 

 Anvik, Alaska, by the late Rev. John Chapman. They were recorded 

 by dictaphone and the cylinder was obtained by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 

 who presented it to the Bureau of American Ethnology. Information 

 concerning the songs was obtained by correspondence with Mr. Chap- 

 man, and the record was transcribed in its entirety. 



In the collection of records transferred to the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology 27 tribes or large tribal groups are represented by 11 to 356 

 songs, and 12 small groups are represented by less than 11 songs. 

 Many of the latter songs were recorded by Indians who are not 

 members of those groups. Indians often learn songs from other 

 tribes and sing them in dances and games. No attempt has been made 

 to obtain any considerable number of such borrowed songs. 



^ The first field trip to the Mandan and Hidatsa was under the auspices of the North 

 Dakota Historical Society. A subsequent trip and publication of results was under the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology. 



" Field trips to the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Valley Maidu, and the recording of songs 

 of Santo Domingo Pueblo by a member of the tribe temporarily in Los Angeles, were under 

 the auspices of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. With the exception of the 

 music of the Maidu the results of these trips have been published by the Southwest 

 ^luseum. A manuscript on the music of the Maidu awaits publication by that museum. 



"Songs of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, Zuiii, Hopi, and Santo Domingo Pueblos have been 

 recorded by singers from those pueblos temporarily in a low altitude. 



^' Obtained from Navaho temporarily in a low altitude. 



" Songs of the Tule Indians were recorded by Indians from that locality, temporarily 

 in Washington, D. C. 



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