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dialects, embodying the basic principles and the civil and political structure 
and organization of the League of the Iroquois and data relating thereto. The 
Onondaga texts aggregate about 26,955 words and the Mohawk texts about 
1,480 words, making a total of 27,4835 words. The following captions will 
indicate sufficiently the subject-matter of these texts: The Constitution of the 
League, the Powers of the T‘hadoda‘ho’, Amendments, Powers and Rights of 
the Chiefs, Powers and Rights of the Women, Powers of the Women Chiefs, 
Procedure on Failure in Succession, Powers and Restrictions of “ Pine Tree” 
Chiefs, Procedure in Case of Murder, Address of Condolence for Death in a 
Chief's Family, Forest-edge Chanted Address of Welcome, The Chant for the 
Dead, Interpretation of the Fundamental Terms, Peace, Power, and Justice. 
Mr. Hewitt also continued his duties as custodian of the collection of lin- 
guistic manuscripts of the Bureau, the completion of the catalogue of which was 
entrusted to Mr. J. B. Clayton, head clerk. He has also been called upon to 
furnish data for the correspondence of the office, more particularly that part 
relating to the Iroquoian tribes. 
Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist, has been engaged during the entire year on the 
Handbook of American Indians, the editorial work of which has proved ex- 
tremely arduous and difficult. This work is in two parts: Part I, A—M, was 
issued from the press in March last, and the main body of Part II was in type 
at the close of the fiscal year, though progress in proof reading was exceedingly 
slow on account of the great diversity of the topics treated and the difficulty of 
bringing up to date numbers of articles relating often to obscure tribes and 
subjects. 
During the entire fiscal year Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, remained in the 
office, occupied chiefly on the Handbook of American Indians and in the clas- 
sification of the large body of material previously obtained relating to the 
tribes of the Great Plains. His extended article on Indian Missions, written for 
the Handbook, has been made the subject of a special reprint, a small edition 
of which was issued by the Bureau. Mr. Mooney has also given valuable 
assistance in the correspondence of the Bureau, more especially that portion 
relating to the languages of the Algonquian stock. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 
For a number of years Dr. Franz Boas, assisted by a large corps of linguists, 
has been engaged in the preparation of a work on the American languages, to be 
published as a bulletin of the Bureau, entitled “ Handbook of American Lan- 
guages,” and it is expected that the manuscript of the first part of this work will 
be submitted for publication at an early date. Sections relating to the languages 
of the Eskimo and the Iroquois alone remain incomplete. During the summer 
of 1906 Mr. Hdward Sapir was engaged in collecting data for the handbook on 
the language of the Takelma tribe, located on the Siletz Agency, Oregon, and 
toward the close of the year Mr. Leo J. Frachtenberg began similar studies 
among the Tutelo remnant on the Tuscarora Reservation, Ontario, Canada. 
Reports of the discovery of fossil remains of men of extremely primitive 
type in the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska, led to the assignment of Dr. Ales 
Hrdliéka, curator of physical anthropology in the National Museum, to the duty 
of visiting the University of Nebraska, at Lineoln, where the remains are pre- 
served, and also the site of their exhumation. The examinations were made 
with the greatest care, and the results are embodied in Bulletin 38 of the 
Bureau, which was in press at the close of the fiscal year. The conclusion 
reached by Doctor Hrdlitka with respect to the age and character of these 
remains is that they are not geologically ancient, belonging rather to the mound- 
