﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  71 
  

  

  manuscripts 
  had 
  been 
  completed 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  and 
  

   that 
  the 
  cataloguing 
  of 
  the 
  phonograph 
  records 
  of 
  Indian 
  music 
  was 
  

   the 
  new 
  work 
  for 
  the 
  j^ear. 
  

  

  On 
  May 
  8, 
  1927, 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  went 
  to 
  Brantford, 
  Canada, 
  where 
  he 
  

   resumed 
  his 
  researches, 
  studying 
  intensively 
  the 
  rituals, 
  laws, 
  cus- 
  

   toms, 
  and 
  chants 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  League 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois. 
  

  

  In 
  1896 
  Chief 
  Seth 
  Newhouse, 
  a 
  Mohawk, 
  showed 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  a 
  

   document 
  upon 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  been 
  working 
  for 
  more 
  than 
  15 
  years. 
  

   It 
  purported 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  constitution 
  and 
  by-laws 
  of 
  the 
  League 
  of 
  

   the 
  Iroquois, 
  in 
  the 
  compilation 
  of 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Newhouse 
  had 
  visited 
  

   all 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  reservations 
  known 
  to 
  him 
  in 
  both 
  Canada 
  and 
  the 
  

   United 
  States. 
  Mr. 
  Newhouse 
  was 
  an 
  exceptionally 
  fluent 
  speaker 
  

   in 
  Mohawk, 
  but 
  instead 
  of 
  recording 
  the 
  material 
  in 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  

   tongue 
  he 
  painfully 
  recorded 
  it 
  in 
  picturesque 
  broken 
  English. 
  Mr. 
  

   Hewitt 
  realized 
  that 
  the 
  significance 
  of 
  the 
  materials 
  contained 
  in 
  

   this 
  document 
  had 
  been 
  lost 
  in 
  the 
  attempted 
  translation 
  and 
  finally 
  

   convinced 
  Mr. 
  Newhouse 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  his 
  duty 
  to 
  render 
  the 
  ideas 
  

   underlying 
  the 
  English 
  of 
  the 
  document 
  into 
  Mohawk. 
  This 
  he 
  did 
  

   in 
  1898, 
  and 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  this 
  aaaterial 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt's 
  present 
  

   occupations. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  also 
  recorded 
  a 
  Cayuga 
  version 
  of 
  the 
  Chant 
  Along 
  

   the 
  Trails 
  or 
  The 
  Chant 
  of 
  the 
  Roll 
  of 
  the 
  Founders 
  of 
  the 
  Lodge; 
  

   a 
  Cayuga 
  version 
  of 
  the 
  chant, 
  Over 
  the 
  Great 
  Forest; 
  the 
  music 
  

   scores 
  of 
  the 
  several 
  chants 
  of 
  the 
  condoling 
  and 
  installation 
  rituals 
  

   of 
  the 
  league 
  ; 
  and 
  an 
  " 
  Introduction 
  " 
  in 
  Cayuga 
  and 
  Onondaga 
  to 
  

   the 
  second 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  requickening 
  address 
  which 
  is 
  uttered 
  in 
  the 
  

   principal 
  place 
  of 
  assembly. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  F. 
  H. 
  H. 
  Roberts, 
  jr., 
  archeologist, 
  joined 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  

   P>ureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  on 
  November 
  1, 
  1926. 
  His 
  winter 
  

   months 
  were 
  devoted 
  to 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  ceramics 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Juan 
  area 
  

   of 
  the 
  Southwest. 
  Doctor 
  Roberts 
  left 
  Washington 
  April 
  27 
  for 
  

   Boulder, 
  Colo., 
  where 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  early 
  ceramic 
  forms 
  was 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  

   museum 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Colorado. 
  

  

  On 
  May 
  6 
  he 
  visited 
  El 
  Paso, 
  Tex., 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  investigating 
  

   certain 
  caves 
  in 
  a 
  small 
  range 
  of 
  mountains 
  which 
  lie 
  25 
  miles 
  north- 
  

   east 
  of 
  the 
  city, 
  between 
  El 
  Paso 
  and 
  the 
  far-famed 
  Hueco 
  Tanks. 
  

   There 
  are 
  28 
  of 
  these 
  natural 
  recesses 
  in 
  the 
  faces 
  of 
  the 
  cliffs, 
  in 
  

   niost 
  cases 
  just 
  above 
  the 
  tops 
  of 
  the 
  talus 
  slopes. 
  In 
  general 
  they 
  

   open 
  to 
  the 
  west 
  or 
  northwest. 
  Most 
  of 
  them 
  bear 
  traces 
  of 
  Indian 
  

   visitors. 
  In 
  the 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  caves 
  these 
  traces 
  are 
  largely 
  in 
  the 
  

   form 
  of 
  pictographs 
  painted 
  on 
  the 
  walls 
  with 
  red 
  pigment. 
  The 
  

   pictures 
  are 
  in 
  great 
  part 
  highly 
  conventionalized 
  and 
  geometric 
  in 
  

   form. 
  In 
  two 
  instances 
  they 
  were 
  decidedly 
  suggestive 
  of 
  the 
  deco- 
  

   rations 
  on 
  pottery 
  from 
  Casas 
  Grandes 
  in 
  northern 
  Mexico. 
  

  

  