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Ottawa, and to the lists of towns formerly belonging to the 
Iroquois tribes. 
From the 20th of January to the 23d of March, 1907, he 
was engaged in field work among the Iroquois tribes in 
New York and in Ontario, Canada. The entire period 
was devoted to collecting texts in the Onondaga and Mohawk 
dialects, embodying the basic principles and the civil and 
political structure and organization of the League of the 
Iroquois and data relating thereto. The Onondaga texts 
aggregate about 27,000 words and the Mohawk texts about 
1,500 words, making a total of 28,500 words. The following 
captions will indicate sufficiently the subject-matter of 
these texts: The Constitution of the League, the Powers of 
the T‘hadoda‘ho’, Amendments, Powers and Rights of the 
Chiefs, Powers and Rights of the Women, Powers of the 
Women Chiefs, Procedure on Failure in Succession, Powers 
and Restrictions of “Pine Tree” Chiefs, Procedure in Case 
of Murder, Address of Condolence for Death in a Chief’s 
Family, Forest-edge Chanted Address of Welcome, The 
Chant for the Dead, Interpretation of the Fundamental 
Terms, Peace, Power, and Justice. 
Mr. Hewitt also continued his duties as custodian of the 
collection of linguistic manuscripts of the Bureau, the com- 
pletion of the catalogue of which was entrusted to Mr. J. B. 
Clayton, head clerk. He has also been called on to furnish 
data for the correspondence of the office, more particularly 
that portion relating to the Iroquoian tribes. 
Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist, has been engaged during the 
entire year on the Handbook of American Indians, the edi- 
torial work of which has proved extremely arduous and 
difficult. This work is in two parts: Part I, A—M, was 
issued from the press in March last, and the main body of 
Part II was in type at the close of the fiscal year, though 
progress in proof reading was exceedingly slow on account 
of the great diversity of the topics treated and the difficulty 
of bringing up to date numbers of articles, many of them 
relating to obscure tribes and subjects. 
During the entire fiscal year Mr. James Mooney, eth- 
nologist, remained in the office, occupied chiefly on the 
