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Tribal Sisterhood, incorporating therein such revisional additions, 

 textual and grammatic, as had been found necessary by extensive 

 field studies. Mr. Hewitt also typed in native Onondaga text this 

 ritual in the form in which it is intoned by the Mother Tribal Sister- 

 hood ; these two versions of the eulogy differ chiefly in the introduc- 

 tory paragraphs and also in the terms or forms of address. Mr. 

 Hewitt continued to represent the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Smithsonian Institution, on the United States Geographic Board, 

 and as a member also of its executive committee. 



On the afternoon of May 7, 1930, Mr. Hewitt left Washington 

 on field duty, returning to the bureau July 1. During this trip 

 he visited the Grand River Reservation of the Six Nations of In- 

 dians near Brantford, Canada, the Tuscarora Reservation near Ni- 

 agara Falls, N. y., and the Onondaga Reservation near Syracuse, 

 N. Y. Largely through his own knowledge of the several Iroquois 

 languages, he was able to recover the hitherto lost meanings of sev- 

 eral passages in the texts relating to the league. These recoveries 

 now make the entire structure of the League of the Iroquois clear 

 and consistent. 



During the fiscal year Dr. Francis LaFlesche, ethnologist, read 

 the proof of his paper " The Osage Tribe : Rite of the Wa-xo-be," 

 which will be publislied in the forty-fifth annual report of the 

 bureau. At the time of Doctor LaFlesche's retirement, December 

 26, 1929, he had nearly completed an Osage dictionary upon which 

 he had been working for several years. 



SPECIAL KESEARCHES 



The music of 10 tribes of Indians has been studied during the 

 past year by ISiiss Frances Densmore, a collaborator of the bureau, 

 in continuance of her research on this subject. These tribes are the 

 Acoma, Menominee, Winnebago, Yuma, Cocopa, Mohave, Yaqui, 

 Makah, Clayoquot, and Quileute. The first tribe given considera- 

 tion was the Acoma, the work consisting in a completion of the 

 study of records made in Washington by Philip Sanche. These 

 records were made for the chief of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. Thirteen were transcribed as representative of the series. 

 An outstanding peculiarity of these songs is a gradual raising or 

 lowering of the pitch during a performance. In some instances 

 the pitch was changed a semitone, in others a tone and a half, and 

 one example contained a rise of a whole tone during one minute of 

 singing. This was regarded as a mannerism and. the song was 

 transcribed on the pitch maintained for the longest time. 



The work on Yuman and Yaqui music consisted in the retyping of 

 almost all the text on these tribes, made necessary by the combining 



