70 ANNUAL. REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1923 



available for study on account of the burning of the hotel a few 

 years ago. 



The excavations began early in May and the Indian cemetery was 

 located on the slope of the mound toward the beach. The graves 

 that were opened were crowded with human bodies, trinkets, and a 

 great variety of utensils. Among the specimens are a fragment of a 

 soapstone canoe, soapstone pipes, fishhooks of abalone and bone, 

 sinker stones, arrowheads of great variety, spear heads, about 40 

 mortars, pestles, including some very long ones, beads of many kinds, 

 pendants, daggers, bowls and kettles of soapstone, native paint, etc. 



Mr. Harrington has prepared for publication during the fiscal 

 year approximately 1,900 pages of manuscript. 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, completed during the fiscal year 

 the second part of his Iroquoian Cosmology, the first part having 

 appeared in the Twenty-first Annual Report of the bureau. 



During the year Mr. Hewitt spent some time editing a manu- 

 script entitled " Report on the Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri," 

 by Mr. Edwin Thompson Denig, to the Hon. Isaac Stevens, Governor 

 of Washington Territory in 1854 ( ?), which has been submitted for 

 publication. 



Mr. Hewitt devoted much time and research in the preparation of 

 data for official replies to correspondents of the bureau. These in- 

 quiries in their scope touch almost the entire range of human interest, 

 very often seeking information quite outside of the specific field of 

 research belonging to this bureau. About 100 such replies were pre- 

 pared, although some of them required more than a day's work in 

 preparation. 



Mr. Hewitt also acted as the representative of the Smithsonian 

 Institution on the United States Board of Geographic Names. 



On May 18, 1923, Mr. Hewitt left Washington on field duty. His 

 destination was the Grand River Grant to the Six Nations of Iro- 

 quois dwelling near Brantford, Ontario, Canada. At this place 

 Mr. Hewitt made an intensive study and revision and fuller inter- 

 pretation of his voluminous texts — texts which he had recorded so 

 fortunately in previous visits to this place. These texts embody the 

 traditions of the founding of the League or Confederation of the 

 Five Tribes of the Iroquois in the closing decades of the sixteenth 

 century. They contain also the principles and laws upon which it 

 was established, as well as the complete rituals and chants of the 

 Council of Condolence and Installation of the Federal Government, 

 was established, as well as the complete rituals and chants of the 

 kindreds composing the tribal members of the league. 



He was' also fortunate in recovering enough data relating to the 

 Federal and tribal chieftainesses to enable him to affirm the former 

 existence of a set of official names for every one of these women 



