ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. i 
is worthy of intensive study by the student of comparative 
mythology and religion. The pencil texts of these myths 
aggregate 1,057 pages and the typewritten 316 pages. The 
tentative draft of the free translations of these texts aggre- 
gates 250 pages of typewriting. Some work was also done 
in supplying the first text with a literal interlinear transla- 
tion. This will be ready for the press at an early date. 
Mr. Hewitt also continued work on his league material, 
in which he completed the copying of the corrected and 
amended native text of the tradition of the founding of the 
Iroquois League or Confederation by Deganawida, making 
189 typewritten pages, and also the amended and corrected 
text of the Chant of the Condoling and Installation Council, 
detailing some of the fundamental laws of the league; this 
occupies 13 pages. 
Upon request, Mr. Hewitt also submitted an article on 
the League of the Iroquois and Its Constitution for the 
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution; it occupies 
30 typewritten pages. 
Mr. Hewitt has also attended the meetings of the United 
States Geographic Board, on which he represents the Smith- 
sonian Institution. 
As custodian of manuscripts, Mr. Hewitt has charged out 
and received back such items as were required by collabo- 
rators. 
Mr. Hewitt also spent much time and study in the prepa- 
ration of matter for official replies to letters of correspon- 
dents of the bureau or to those which have been referred to 
the bureau from other departments of the Government. 
On May 12, 1919, Mr. Hewitt left Washington on field 
duty. His first stop was on the Onondaga Reservation, 
situated about 8 miles south of Syracuse, N. Y. There he 
was able to record in native text all of the doctrines of the 
ereat Seneca religious reformer, Skanyodaiyo (‘‘ Handsome 
Lake’’). This is an important text, as it will serve to show 
just how much was original native belief and how much was 
added by the reformer from his impressions formed from 
observing the results of European intrusion. This text con- 
tains about 14,000 native terms. He also recorded the 
