8 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 
several remnant league rituals and chants which are still 
available on this reservation. But they are so much abbrevi- 
ated and their several parts so confused and intermixed one 
with another that with these remains alone it would be 
absolutely impossible to obtain even an approximate view of 
their original forms and settings—a most disappointing situa- 
tion for the recorder. Only the most elementary and super- 
ficial knowledge of the structure and constitution of the 
Iroquois League survives here. 
Having completed his projected work at this reservation, 
Mr. Hewitt went, May 31, to the Six Nations Reservation 
on Grand River, Ontario, Canada. Here he resumed the 
analysis, correction, amendation, and translation of the 
league texts which he had recorded in previous years. Satis- 
factory progress was made in this work up to the time of the 
close of his field assignment. 
During the year Mr. Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, de- 
voted a part of his time to the task of assembling his notes 
taken at the time of his visit among the Osage people in the 
month of May, 1918. These notes relate to the tribal rite 
entitled Ga-hi/-ge O-k’o", The Rite of the Chiefs. The ritual 
contains 27 wi’-gi-es (recited parts), 20 of which belong to 
individual gentes and 7 of which are tribal. 
In this ritual is embodied the story of the four stages of 
the development of the tribal government, including both 
the military and the civil forms, beginning with the chaotic 
state of the tribal existence. 
The securing of the information relating to this rite 
required considerable tact, patience, and time, because the 
men familiar with all the details still regard the ancient rites 
with reverence and superstitious awe. The transcribing of 
the wi’-gi-es from the dictaphone records and the translation 
of the words from the Osage into the English language were 
laborious and tedious tasks. This rite will soon be entirely 
forgotten, as it has been abandoned now for a number of 
years, and the rescuing of it for preservation has been timely. 
This rite, which will make the first part of the volume 
now being completed for publication, covers 182 typewritten 
pages without the illustrations, maps, and diagrams. 
