NOS L7 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQ16 Ail 
No™ho"zhi"ga are obliged to use this wi’gie, they changed the words 
of the refrain to a b1 a, (“ they said,” that is, they of the House of 
the Hlo™ga). Furthermore, the entire wi’gie is recited im a very 
low tone so that only the Xoka and the candidate can hear the words. 
The task of transcribing the text of the ritual as recorded by the 
eraphophone, and the translating of the wi’gie and the songs is 
still in progress. At the present time 30 typewritten pages have 
been completed. 
The rigidity with which the Tsi’zhu Washtage gens in its rituals 
adheres to the peace principle it represents may be regarded as being 
theoretical rather than an actual restriction of warfare, for the 
reason that among its members there have been men who have won 
war-honors and who have even been leaders of war-parties. 
Sho”gemo"i" himself is an example of this, for he has won more 
than the number of war-honors required for the ceremonial count- 
ing of odo™; he has often been chosen to act as Wado*be, the 
counter of war-honors, at the war ceremonies. 
Sho” gemo"i" recounted in the phonograph for Mr. La Flesche 
his thirteen war-honors, giving them exactly as he counts them 
at the war ceremonies. [or this service he is usually paid from 
one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five dollars when he fills 
the office of Wado"be. It was as an act of friendship to Mr. La 
Flesche that he made, for a smali sum, the record of his counting 
of odo™. 
This record by Sho™gemo™m has been included in the already 
completed No™zhi"zho" ceremony as described by Waxthi’zhi of 
the I"gtho"ga gens. The reason for placing it there is that, according 
to tribal regulations, Sho™gemo"i" cannot be chosen to act as 
Wado"be on his side of the tribal division, but must be called upon 
from the opposite side to perform this ceremonial act. 
In 1863 Sho"’gemo"i" took part in a fight in which the Osage 
warriors destroyed a party of Confederate officers who were on 
their way to Mexico. In the struggle he struck some of the men, 
“but,” he added, “I do not recount these strokes at the war cere- 
monies because | am a friend of the white people.” 
Sho"’gemo'i" is one of three surviving old men of the tribe who 
can count the full thirteen odo”, or war-honors, at the war 
ceremonies. 
ETHNOLOGY OF THE IROQUOIS 
On April 19, 1916, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt resumed his field studies 
of the League of the Iroquois, near Brantford, Ontario. His time 
was devoted chiefly to the collection of native texts, largely in 
