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At the close of the California work, in May, Mr. Harrington was 

 detailed to visit Walpi, Arizona, for the purpose of hringing a party 

 of Hopi Indians to the Grand Canyon, where records were made of 

 their songs. The Indians whose services were secured were Kutqa, 

 Chief of Walpi Pueblo ; Hunawo, head snake chief ; Hungi, a leader in 

 the snake ceremonies ; and Kakapti, one of the best singers of the 

 tribe. At the Grand Canyon they met their old friend, Dr. Fewkes, 

 and proceeded to give their best renditions of Katcina songs to the 

 strange machine invented by the white man to preserve these price- 

 less songs of the remote Indian past. The Grand Canyon is a sacred 

 place of Hopi mythology, and their visit to it took on almost a religi- 

 ous aspect. Songs were obtained of a dozen different kinds of Kat- 

 cinas, which may be described as ancestral spirits. On the trip through 

 the Hopi country native place names were gathered from the four 

 aged men. 



During the middle of the summer, Mr. Harrington assisted the 

 Chief of the Bureau in the excavation of Elden Pueblo, Arizona. 

 During the excavations, visits were received from a number of Hopi 

 Indians and information of unique character was recorded from some 

 of them. None of the visitors, however, was able to furnish the old 

 Indian name of Elden Pueblo, although they gave without hesitation 

 the name of the near-by Elden Mesa. But they were unanimous in 

 thinking that the Elden inhabitants were ancestors of the Hopi. Prac- 

 tically all the artifacts taken from the ruin could l)e named in Indian 

 and intelligently discussed by the Hopi. 



ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES AMONG THE IROQUOIS INDIANS 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 spent the period from May 25 to June 29, 1926, among the Iroquois 

 Indians living on their reserves in the vicinity of Brantford, Ontario, 

 and at Caughnawaga near Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 



While on the Grand River Grant to the Six Nations, near Brant- 

 ford, Ontario, Mr. Hewitt resumed his intensive researches relating to 

 the content and analytic interpretation of the Onondaga, the Mohawk, 

 and the Cayuga native texts recorded by him in former years, relating 

 to the several institutions of the Federal League of the Five ( latterly 

 Six) Iroquois tribes, including the contents and the structure of the 

 noble Chants and Rituals of the impressive Federal Council of Con- 

 dolence for deceased Chiefs and the Installation of their successors. 



With the aid of Chief John Buck, an Onondaga-Tutelo mixed- 

 blood, as an Onondaga informant and interpreter, and Chief (retired) 



