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visits to this place. These texts embody the traditions of 
the founding of the League or Confederation of the Five 
Tribes of the Iroquois in the closing decades of the sixteenth 
century. They contain also the principles and laws upon 
which it was established, as well as the complete rituals and 
chants of the Council of Condolence and Installation of the 
Federal Government, and full explanations of the intricate 
political relationships of the kindreds composing the tribal 
members of the league. 
He was also fortunate in recovering enough data relating 
to the Federal and tribal chieftainesses to enable him to 
affirm the former existence of a set of official names for every 
one of these women magistrates. He also recorded much 
valuable information relating to the several institutions of 
the league. 
On June 24 Mr. Hewitt made a short visit to the Onondaga 
Reservation, lying about 8 miles south of Syracuse, N. Y. 
He devoted his time on this reservation to a comparison of 
the limited knowledge possessed by the only two men who 
had any definite information of the various institutions and 
laws and installation rituals of the Iroquois Confederation, 
with the records which he possesses. The object was to 
ascertain, if still possible, how much of his Canadian material, 
if any, could be said to be recent, or whether the differences 
in the content were due merely to the breakdown of the tra- 
ditions of the New York Onondaga. He convinced himself 
that the latter was the sole cause. 
Mr. Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, was engaged most of 
the time during the fiscal year in assembling his notes for the 
third volume of his work on The Osage Tribe. In this 
volume are recorded two rituals of the Osage tribal rites. 
One is entitled Wa-xo’-be A-wa-tho*, Singing of the Wa- 
xo’-be Songs, and the other, Ca Tha-ce Ga-xe, Weaving of 
the Rush. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
In her studies of Indian music during the fiscal year Miss 
Frances Densmore had included the songs of three tribes 
living in Arizona, near the Mexican border. These tribes are 
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