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New York, Dr. Fenton visited the Six Nations Keserve near Brantf ord, 

 Canada, between April 23 and May 19. The Archive of American 

 Folk Song, of the Library of Congress, again furnished recording 

 equipment, enabling Dr. Fenton to make complete sound recordings 

 of the chants of the Iroquois Condolence Council, previously un- 

 collected, Chanters for the Dead, and several social dances. While in 

 Canada, Dr. Fenton visited Toronto to consult with anthropologists at 

 the University concerning a postwar plan for Iroquois studies, and 

 certain specimens were studied at the Royal Ontario Museum of 

 Archaeology. 



In addition to reports issued by the Ethnogeographic Board, sev- 

 eral book reviews, notes, and articles were contributed to scientific and 

 literary journals. A series on "Place Names and Related Activities 

 of the Cornplanter Senecas" appeared during 1945 in the Pennsyl- 

 vania Archaeologist. The Northwest Ohio Quarterly carried a "Com- 

 mentary on Samuel Crowell's Account of Seneca Dog Sacrifice near 

 Sandusky (1830)." A second paper, by J. N. B. Hewitt, "Some 

 Mnemonic Pictographs Relating to the Iroquois Condolence Council," 

 was completed by Dr. Fenton in the field and accepted for publica- 

 tion in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, being 

 in proof at the close of the fiscal year. Considerable progress may be 

 noted on a related manuscript, which is a field report on "A Cayuga 

 Condolence Cane with Pictographs Denominating the Founders of 

 the Iroquois League," a project that was undertaken in 1913 for the 

 Cranbrook Institute of Science. 



Near the close of the fiscal year, Dr. Fenton visited Harrisburg, 

 Warren, and Philadelphia, Pa., for the purpose of furthering 

 ethnological studies among the Cornplanter and Allegany Senecas in 

 cooperation with the staff of the Pennsylvania Historical Commis- 

 sion, local historians in northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern 

 New York, and the University of Pennsylvania. 



In connection with projected research in the prehistory of river 

 valleys, Dr. Fenton prepared a plan for "An xVnthropological Survey 

 of the Allegheny River Reservoir Area of New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania." 



Dr. H. G. Barnett, anthropologist, has devoted his efforts during 

 the fiscal year to studies concerning the general problem of cultural 

 change. Data bearing on this problem were obtained in the past in 

 the field from various Indian communities and are supplemented by 

 diverse historical sources such as regional histories, diaries, pioneer 

 reminiscences, missionary accounts, church records, and a host of offi- 

 cial reports on Indian investigations and reservation administration. 

 The Indian communities involved include those of the Yurok and 

 Hupa in northern California, the Siletz and Klamath in Oregon, and 

 the Yakima, as well as several smaller groups around the southern 



