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notes and corrections for the proofs still to come. From unedited 

 text Mr. Hewitt completed a free translation of 32 pages of the Onon- 

 daga version of the " requickening address " of the Ritual of Con- 

 dolence of the League of the Iroquois, being a part of the material 

 for his projected memoir on the Iroquois League. 



After the material of the Seneca legends had been submitted for 

 printing, Mr. Curtin's field records and notes, made while recording 

 this material, came into possession of the bureau. Mr. Hewitt de- 

 voted much time to reading and examining this undigested material, 

 some 4,000 pages, for the purpose of ascertaining whether part of it 

 should be utilized for printing or for illustrative purposes in what 

 was already in type. This examination yielded some good material 

 for notes and interpretations, but only small return as to new ma- 

 terial for printing. 



In the early autumn Mr. Hewitt made special preparations for the 

 prosecution of field work on his projected memoir on the League of 

 the Iroquois, by tentative editing and copying of a number of 

 Mohawk and Onondaga texts recorded hastily in the field in pre- 

 vious years. The following parts of the Ritual of the Condolence 

 Council were thus tj'pewritten : The fore part of the Ceremony of 

 Condolence, called " Beside-The-Forest," or " Beside-The-Thicket," 

 in Mohawk ; the so-called " Requickening Address," in the Onondaga 

 version, and also the explanatory " introduction " and the " reply " 

 in Onondaga to the "Beside-The-Forest" address already noted; 

 and the installation address in Onondaga, made by Dekanawida to 

 the last two Seneca leaders to join the League, was likewise edited 

 and typewritten. Mr. Hewitt also devoted much study to other 

 parts of the League material, for the purpose of being able to dis- 

 cuss it intelligently and critically with native informants. Some of 

 the most striking results of this year's field work are due to this 

 preparatory study of the material already in hand. Mr. Hewitt spent 

 many days in the office in searching out and preparing data for 

 replies to correspondents of the bureau. 



On April 17, 1916, Mr. Hewitt left Washington for the Six Nations 

 reserve near Brantford, Ontario, for the purpose of resuming field 

 work, having in view primarily the putting into final form of the 

 Onondaga and Mohawk texts pertaining to the League of the Iro- 

 quois, recorded in former j^ears. These texts cover a wide range of 

 subjects and represent the first serious attempt to record in these 

 languages very technical and highly figurative language from per- 

 sons unaccustomed to dictate connected texts for recording. These 

 text embody laws, decisions, rituals, ceremonies, and constitutional 

 principles; hence it is essential that correct verbal and grammatic 

 forms be given. 



