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although of course unexpressed. This discovery showed the need for 

 thorough search in the field for a living tradition in which this ideal 

 is fully expressed. Further search was deferred to field work. It 

 was clear that such an ideal enhanced the beauty of the birth story 

 of Deganawida and made more interesting the historicity of such a 

 person. Mr. Hewitt had the great satisfaction of recovering such a 

 tradition in his subsequent field researches. He found that the in- 

 feriority complex had precluded his present informants from ex- 

 pressing themselves during the lifetime of other informants, whose 

 recent deaths opened their mouths without the fear of contradic- 

 tion. The death of Abram Charles within the year made these shy 

 informants vocal. 



In January Matthew W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, requested Mr. Hewitt to undertake the editing of the 

 Manuscript Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz, of Berne, Switzer- 

 land, in the manner in which he had prepared the Edwin Thompson 

 Denig Report on the Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri River, 

 published in the Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology. The Kurz manuscript was written in German dur- 

 ing the years 1846 to 1852. The typed German text consists of 454 

 pages of large legal cap size, while the English translation of it by 

 Myrtis Jarrell occupies 780 pages. The journal is a narrative of 

 Mr. Kurz's experiences in a trip up the Mississippi River from New 

 Orleans to St. Louis, thence up the Missouri to Fort Union at the 

 Mouth of the Yellowstone River, and of his difficulties with the 

 Indians while endeavoring to make drawings or pictures of them. 

 There are 125 pen sketches of Indians and others accompanying the 

 manuscript. 



Mr. Hewitt represents the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, on the United States Geographic Board, and 

 is a member of its executive committee. In connection with the 

 forthcoming issue of the sixth report of this board much extra work 

 had to be done by members of the executive committee. Mr. Hewitt 

 prepared a memorandum for a portion of the introduction. Mr. 

 Hewitt also devoted much time and study to the collection and 

 preparation of data for official replies to correspondents of the 

 bureau, some demanding long research. Miss Mae W. Tucker has 

 assisted Mr. Hewitt in the care of the manuscript and phonograph 

 and photograph records of the archives. 



On May 10, 1931, Mr. Hewitt left Washington, D. C, on field 

 duty and returned to tlie bureau July 2, 1931. During this trip he 

 visited the Grand River grant of the Six Nations of Iroquois Indians 

 dwelling near Brantford, Canada, and also the Tuscarora Reserva- 

 tion near Niagara Falls, N. Y. 



