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June he visited the Six Nations of Iroquois near Brantford, Ontario, 

 Canada, and the Onondaga, Tonowanda, and Tuscarora in New- 

 York State for the purpose of securing certain data regarding the 

 Condolence and Installation Council. 



Mr. Francis La Flesche devoted his time to the assembly of his 

 notes on the child-naming rites and ceremonies of the Osage Indians. 

 Mr. La Flesche has succeeded in securing two of the remaining ver- 

 sions of these rites which are now practically obsolete, and these will 

 form the tAvo parts of a publication on the subject, now nearing com- 

 f.letion. Mr. W. E. Myer on his return from field work in Tennesseei 

 began preparation of a report on the remains of the great prehistoric 

 Indian settlement known as Great Mound Group in Cheatham 

 County, Tenn. The great central mound of this ancient town was 

 protected by earthen breastworks surmounted at intervals by circu- 

 lar wooden towei-s, and completed by earthen bastions projecting 150 

 yards beyond the main walls. In addition to this fortified mound, 

 there were four other eminences with tops leveled into plazas, which 

 showed evidences of earth lodges and former buildings. 



Miss Frances Densmore recorded songs of the Makah Indians at 

 Neah Bay, Wash., in order to compare the music of Indians living 

 beside the ocean with that of tribes living on the mountains, plains, 

 and desert. It was found, as a general observation, that the music 

 of the Makah resembles that of the Ute, Papago, and Yuma more 

 than that of the Chippewa, Sioux, and Pawnee. The Makah songs 

 recorded included songs of the whale legends and whaling expedi- 

 tions, songs of the potlatch and various social dances, songs con- 

 nected with contests of physical strength, "gratitude songs," lul- 

 labies, courting songs, and songs of wedding festivities. 



The publications of the bureau issued during the year consisted of 

 three bulletins, and a number of other bulletins and reports were 

 in press at the close of the year. There were distributed during the 

 year 13,974 copies of the publications of the bureau. 



INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES 



The total number of packages handled by the exchange service 

 during the year was 460,658, weighing 567,107 pounds, an increase 

 over last year of 82,832 packages and 74,291 pounds in weight. This 

 increase was due for the most part to the large number of publica- 

 tions received in this country for transmission to universities and 

 colleges in Japan that lost their libraries during the recent earth- 

 quake. 



The Institution was notified during the year that the Government 

 of Hungary had established the Hungarian Libraries Board at 

 Budapest to act as the Hungarian exchange agency, and that the 



