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dinavia during the war. This was published in the American An- 
thropologist under the title “Anthropology During the War: Scan- 
dinavia.” 
During the month of July 1945, Dr. William N. Fenton was en- 
gaged in a study of place names and related activities of the Corn- 
planter Senecas. When completed, this series, on which M. H. Dear- 
dorff of Warren, Pa., and C. E. Congdon of Salamanca, N. Y., have 
collaborated, will comprise the Indian names of places throughout 
the valley of the Allegheny River. Another problem on which work 
was continued was the documenting and description of the Condo- 
lence Council for installing chiefs in the Iroquois League, the study 
of which the late J. N. B. Hewitt had commenced a generation ago. 
Having collected the sacred songs and ritual chants of this ceremony 
for the Library of Congress in the spring, Dr. Fenton returned to 
the Six Nations Reserve on October 29, 1945, in the Recording Lab- 
oratory sound truck for the purpose of making a documentary film. 
Dr. Fenton was invited to sit in on the rehearsals and attend the instal- 
lation of two Cayuga chiefs on November 20, 1945. The family of 
one of the candidates, Chief John Hardy Gibson, has served American 
ethnology for two generations, and with the help of Howard Skye 
and the cooperation of the chiefs, a complete transcript of the proceed- 
ings of the Condolence Council among the Canadian Iroquois was 
prepared and published for the first time since Horatio Hale’s ac- 
count in the last century. This material, written up on returning 
from the field, became the body of an illustrated lecture on “The Six 
Nations of Canada,” which Dr. Fenton was invited to deliver before 
the Royal Canadian Institute of Toronto, January 12, 1946. In the 
field, Ernest Dodge, of the Peabody Museum of Salem, collaborated 
in recording some rare Iroquois flute music from James White, Onon- 
daga of Six Nations. In addition, a complete performance of the 
Dark Dance Rite of the Little People was recorded with Eli Jacob, 
Cayuga of Sour Springs, as leading singer. Similar recordings were 
made of the Death Feast ritual in the spring, and from Howard Skye, 
an official of the ceremony, Dr. Fenton obtained a fairly complete 
account of the fall celebration. The same informant helped translate 
a Cayuga text of the Tutelo Migration Legend, collected by Hewitt. 
Returning by way of Allegany Reservation, near Salamanca, N. Y., 
material for a second album of Iroquois songs was collected from 
singers at Coldspring Longhouse. Christian hymns in Seneca were 
recorded near West Salamanca to extend coverage of hymn singing 
already collected in Mohawk and Oneida. Acknowledgment is due 
the Viking Fund of New York for support of this field work. 
An outstanding event in Iroquois studies was the organization and 
conduct of the First Conference on Iroquois Research, held October 
