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  ANNUAL 
  EEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  After 
  five 
  weeks 
  at 
  Neah 
  Bay 
  Miss 
  Densmore 
  went 
  to 
  Chilliwack, 
  

   British 
  Columbia, 
  where 
  Indians 
  from 
  a 
  wide 
  territory 
  are 
  annually 
  

   employed 
  as 
  pickers 
  in 
  the 
  hop 
  fields. 
  An 
  effort 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  obtain 
  

   songs 
  of 
  all 
  important 
  classes, 
  from 
  Indians 
  as 
  widely 
  separated 
  as 
  

   possible. 
  More 
  than 
  125 
  songs 
  were 
  recorded, 
  among 
  the 
  localities 
  

   represented 
  being 
  the 
  Nass, 
  Skeena, 
  Thompson, 
  and 
  Eraser 
  Rivers, 
  

   Port 
  Simpson, 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  British 
  Columbia 
  and 
  the 
  southwest 
  

   coast 
  of 
  Vancouver 
  Island. 
  The 
  singers 
  came 
  from 
  a 
  region 
  extend- 
  

   ing 
  about 
  400 
  miles 
  north 
  and 
  south 
  and 
  about 
  150 
  miles 
  east 
  and 
  

   west. 
  Two 
  aged 
  medicine 
  men 
  recorded 
  songs 
  which 
  fliey 
  use 
  at 
  the 
  

   present 
  time 
  in 
  treating 
  the 
  sick, 
  and 
  numerous 
  healing 
  songs 
  were 
  

   recorded 
  by 
  other 
  Indians. 
  One 
  was 
  for 
  the 
  cure 
  of 
  smallpox; 
  in 
  

   another 
  the 
  doctor 
  addressed 
  the 
  seal, 
  grizzly 
  bear, 
  and 
  deer, 
  asking 
  

   their 
  help, 
  while 
  the 
  next 
  song 
  contained 
  their 
  favorable 
  response. 
  

   The 
  medicine 
  men 
  appreciated 
  the 
  value 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  and 
  recorded 
  

   their 
  songs 
  without 
  reluctance. 
  

  

  Mention 
  should 
  be 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  slaJial 
  game 
  played 
  often 
  at 
  the 
  

   hop 
  camp 
  by 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  Indians, 
  with 
  crowds 
  of 
  Indian 
  

   spectators. 
  The 
  songs 
  and 
  method 
  of 
  playing 
  the 
  game 
  were 
  re- 
  

   corded, 
  the 
  players 
  were 
  photographed 
  during 
  a 
  game, 
  and 
  the 
  

   bone 
  game 
  implements 
  were 
  loaned 
  for 
  photographic 
  purposes. 
  

  

  Seven 
  manuscripts 
  on 
  the 
  foregoing 
  field 
  w^ork 
  were 
  submitted 
  

   to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology 
  with 
  the 
  following 
  titles: 
  

   " 
  Songs 
  of 
  the 
  Quileute 
  Indians 
  " 
  ; 
  " 
  Makah 
  and 
  Clayoquot 
  songs 
  for 
  

   treating 
  the 
  sick 
  and 
  Makah 
  songs 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  the 
  dead 
  " 
  ; 
  " 
  Klokali 
  

   songs 
  of 
  the 
  Makah 
  Indians"; 
  "Songs 
  of 
  Indians 
  living 
  on 
  the 
  

   Sliamey 
  and 
  Homaco 
  Reserves 
  in 
  British 
  Columbia 
  " 
  ; 
  " 
  Songs 
  of 
  

   Indians 
  living 
  at 
  Port 
  Simpson 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  Skeena 
  and 
  Nass 
  Rivers 
  

   in 
  British 
  Columbia 
  " 
  ; 
  " 
  Makah 
  and 
  Clayoquot 
  songs 
  " 
  ; 
  and 
  " 
  Songs 
  

   and 
  dances 
  presented 
  on 
  Makah 
  Day, 
  1926, 
  at 
  Neah 
  Bay, 
  Wash." 
  

   A 
  paper 
  was 
  also 
  submitted 
  entitled 
  "A 
  comparison 
  betw^een 
  Pawnee 
  

   songs 
  and 
  those 
  jDreviously 
  analj^zed," 
  with 
  18 
  tables 
  of 
  analysis. 
  

   The 
  number 
  of 
  manuscript 
  pages 
  was 
  178 
  and 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  tran- 
  

   scribed 
  songs 
  124. 
  

  

  In 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  opportunities 
  for 
  

   the 
  study 
  of 
  genuine 
  Indian 
  music 
  are 
  rapidly 
  passing, 
  though 
  there 
  

   still 
  remain 
  old 
  people 
  who 
  can 
  sing 
  the 
  ancient 
  songs. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Ales 
  Hrdlicka, 
  curator 
  of 
  physical 
  anthropology. 
  United 
  

   States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  made 
  during 
  the 
  spring 
  and 
  summer 
  of 
  

   1926 
  a 
  comprehensive 
  anthropological 
  and 
  archeological 
  survey 
  in 
  

   Alaska. 
  

  

  Upon 
  reaching 
  the 
  Seward 
  Peninsula 
  he 
  found 
  himself 
  confronted 
  

   wdth 
  unsurmountable 
  difficulties 
  in 
  the 
  matter 
  of 
  transjDortation. 
  

   The 
  arrival 
  of 
  the 
  Revenue 
  Cutter 
  Bea/r 
  was 
  a 
  fortunate 
  circum- 
  

   stance, 
  for 
  he 
  secured 
  both 
  accommodation 
  and 
  promise 
  of 
  assistance 
  

  

  