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Burning Torch between the Two Horizontal Poles— these things to which we, 

 so many as our Council Fires number, have an equal right. 



" For, it may be that thou thyself will see close at hand the nameless Being 

 of our destruction then verily thou shalt go at once and taking the Ever- 

 burning Torch and the Pouch with the Short Purple Wampum String of 

 Notification, and thou must go quickly along through the Lodge of the League 

 so that in the shortest time possible all shall be notified. 



" So, that verily will make it possible that thy two nephew-niece groups 

 of kindred, and thy grandchildren as well, may live and think in contentment. 

 So that, therefore, for one little day, you my weanlings severally may live 

 pleasantly in the days that are coming. 



" So, perhaps thus, let the Three Brothers do, so-called ever since they 

 perfected their affairs. So, now then, do thou my weanling know that these 

 are the sum of our words. Now then we kneel before you (thee) reverently. 

 And now we will know presumably that the full number of our words have been 

 realized in deed. We have now completely set your affairs in order again. 



" Thus, then, did they whom we greatly revered do when they united their 

 affairs; they made a decree, saying, 'It matters not on which side of the Council 

 Fire which is between us the need be, it shall be possible that they shall again 

 set his face fronting the people, that they shall again raise him up (requicken 

 him), that they shall again name his name, and that then also he shall again 

 stand upright before the people. In this we are following the ceremonial path. 

 So, now furthermore, let them say, ' Do thou jnow point out to us the one who 

 shall be again a colaborer with us.' 



" Now, my weanling, do thou know that we, Three Brothers, have completed 

 the Ceremony. 



"And, now then, that which (short purple wampum string) notified us is 

 on its way back to thee. 



" Know thou, then, that now soon thy Father's kinsmen will arise to leave 

 for home, and that there, then, at the edge of the forest will they lay their 

 backs." 



FIELD STUDIES OF INDIAN MUSIC 



In July, 1926, Miss Frances Densmore, collaborator of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, went to Neah Bay, Washington, to continue 

 her study of Makah music. Neah Bay is situated on the Strait of 

 Juan de Fuca, near the end of Cape Flattery. Encircled by the Olym- 

 pic Mountains, it can be reached only by water, and during the winter 

 months it is practically shut off from communication with the outside 

 world. In this isolation the older Indians have kept their former 

 beliefs and traditions with remarkable clearness, though they are 

 anxious to be " civilized " and adopt the best of the white man's ways. 

 Many years ago the Spaniards visited Neah Bay and the location of 

 their fort is near the village. Traces of Spanish ancestry are seen 

 in some of the Indians and occasional songs bear a resemblance to 

 those recorded on the Mexican border. The intermarriage of the 



