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lected, in the fonn of myths and additions to the Pahiihnihan 

 vocabulary. During this work he also visited Round moun- 

 tain. He retiuTiedto Washington January 10, 1890. 



WORK OF MR. J. N. B. HEWITT. 



From July 10 to November 9, 1889, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt was 

 engaged in field work. Until September 7 he was on the 

 Onondaga reservation near Syracuse, New York, where he col- 

 lected legends, tales, and myths and recorded them in the 

 Onondaga vernacular. He also obtained accounts of the reli- 

 gious ceremonies and funeral rites ; recorded the terms forming 

 the Onondagau scheme of relationships of affinity and con- 

 sangviinity; and collected valuable matter pertaining to the 

 Iroquois League and its wampum record. 



From September 1, to November 9 Mr. Hewitt was engaged 

 on Grand River reservation in Canada, where he succeeded in 

 obtaining the chants and speeches used in the Condolence 

 Council of the League of the Iroquois. The religious beliefs 

 of the Iroquois not converted to Christianity were noted; plant 

 and animal names were collected ; many religious and gentile 

 songs were reduced to writing, with accounts of the principal 

 Iroquoian "medicines" in the vernacular of the several tribes. 

 A Wyandot vocabulary was also written. 



WORK OF MRS. M. C. STEVENSON. 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson left Washington in March, 1890, to 

 study the Sia, Jemez, and Zuni Indians. She made Sia her 

 first point of investigation, and found so much of ethnologic 

 interest in that pueblo that she continued her work there to 

 the end of the fiscal year, engaged in making a vocabulary 

 and in studying the habits, customs, mythology, and medicine 

 practices of the people. She was admitted to the ceremonials 

 of the secret societies, and made detailed accounts of their cer- 

 emonies, the altars being photographed by her assistant, Miss 

 Clark. Her studies form the basis of her paper in this volume. 



OFFICE WORK. 



The Director was engaged during the j^ear, as other duties 

 permitted, in preparing a work on the characteristics and 



