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was unexpectedly made again available for study on account 
of the burning of the hotel a few years ago. 
The excavations began early in May and the Indian 
cemetery was located on the slope of the mound toward the 
beach. The graves that were opened were crowded with 
human bodies, trinkets, and a great variety of utensils. 
Among the specimens are a fragment of a soapstone canoe, 
soapstone pipes, fishhooks of abalone and bone, sinker stones, 
arrowheads of great variety, spear heads, about 40 mortar 
pestles, including some very long ones, beads of many kinds, 
pendants, daggers, bowls and kettles of soapstone, native 
paint, ete. 
Mr. Harrington has prepared for publication during the 
fiscal year approximately 1,900 pages of manuscript. 
Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, completed during the 
fiscal year the second part of his Iroquoian Cosmology, the 
first part having appeared in the Twenty-first Annual Report 
of the bureau. 
During the year Mr. Hewitt spent some time editing a 
manuscript entitled ‘‘Report on the Indian Tribes of the 
Upper Missouri,” by Mr. Edwin Thompson Denig, to the 
Hon. Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory in 
1854 (?), which has been submitted for publication. 
Mr. Hewitt devoted much time and research in the prepa- 
ration of data for official replies to correspondents of the 
bureau. These inquiries in their scope touch almost the 
entire range of human interest, very often seeking information 
quite outside of the specific field of research belonging to 
this bureau. About 100 such replies were prepared, although 
some of them required more than a day’s work in preparation. 
Mr. Hewitt also acted as the representative of the Smith- 
sonian Institution on the United States Board of Geographic 
Names. 
On May 18, 1923, Mr. Hewitt left Washington on field 
duty. His destination was the Grand River Grant to the 
Six Nations of Iroquois dwelling near Brantford, Ontario, 
Canada. At this place Mr. Hewitt made an intensive study 
and revision and fuller interpretation of his voluminous 
texts—texts which he had recorded so fortunately in previous 
