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Mohawk, the Cayuga, and the Onondaga vernaculars. In addition 

 to the four myths of the Wind Gods mentioned in the previous 

 report, five others of this series of texts were completed, as was also 

 the paper dealing with the decipherment of an interesting series of 

 mnemonic pictographs. Mr. Hewitt represents the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution on the United States Geographic Board, and as a member 

 of its executive committee has much active research work to do. 



On May 11, 1932, Mr. Hewitt resumed his ethnological researches 

 among the Iroquois members of the former Six Nations of Indians 

 on the Grand River Grant, near Brantford, Ontario, Canada. His 

 investigations began with a study of the permanency and the re- 

 maining cohesive power of the clan among these people, and of its 

 influence, if any, on the social and political activities of these Indians 

 to-day. He found what had been superficially apparent for some 

 time, namely, that the clan structure and authority had become com- 

 pletely forgotten, and so maintained no effective guidance in social 

 and political affairs. David Thomas, a former chief of the Cayuga 

 and an intelligent man, of the Grand River Reservation, dictated a 

 number of traditional and interpretative Cayuga texts dealing with 

 certain phases of the ancient league rituals. John Buck, sr., a former 

 Tutelo chief, supplied further information relating to the Wind 

 Gods, and he also gave much assistance in interpreting league texts 

 already recorded by Mr. Hewitt. 



Winslow M. Walker, associate anthropologist, was in the field at 

 the beginning of the year, exploring certain caves in the Ozark 

 region of north central Arkansas. A large cavern at Cedar Grove 

 yielded the burials of 12 individuals and a considerable number of 

 artifacts and articles of rough stone, chipped flint, bone, shell, and 

 crude undecorated potsherds heavily shell-tempered. The resem- 

 blance to the culture of the Ozark Bluff Dwellers described by M. R. 

 Harrington is very marked. The skeletal remains indicate a long- 

 headed people of moderate stature, the so-called " pre-Algonkin 

 type." Three localities were found where there were petrographs — 

 both carved and painted symbols and figures — but the designs at 

 each of these sites were different and distinctive, and they could not 

 be correlated with any of the Bluff Dweller caves. 



In the middle of July Mr. Walker went to Louisiana, where for 

 a month explorations of mound and village sites in various parts of 

 northern Louisiana were undertaken, principally in the Red River 

 and Mississippi Valleys. At Natchitoches, on Red River, while 

 preparations were going on for the construction of some ponds for 

 a new Government fish hatchery, an ancient Indian burial ground 

 was discovered. Mr. Walker arrived in time to save some of the 

 skeletal material and fragments of a beautiful highly decorated and 

 polished pottery. The period from January to June was spent in 



