ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 109 
now in the hands of Dr. Bruno Oetteking, of the Museum of 
the American Indian, who is preparing an elaborate report 
on them 
At the close of January, Mr. Harrington returned to 
Washington and has since then been engaged in the prepa- 
ration of his report on the Burton Mound 
Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was engaged for the 
greater part of the year in office work. This consisted 
chiefly in the historical analysis of the large mass of material 
in native text relating to the formation and structure and 
import of the League or Confederation of the Five Iroquois 
Tribes or Nations. He was also occupied in the translation 
of the farewell address of Deganawida, a founder of the 
confederation, into literary English. In this address De- 
ganawida briefly summarizes the scope and import of the 
institutions and the laws of the league; herem, with the 
masterful hand of a prophet-statesman, he also graphically 
recapitulated the work accomplished by the several co- 
working founders. 
Mr. Hewitt also translated from the Onondaga text the 
laws first recognizing the extant institution of chieftainess in 
uterine kindreds and then adopting it for the purpose of 
making it fundamental among the institutions of the League 
of the Iroquois, the laws defining the duties, rights, and 
obligations of the incumbent of such office and carefully 
prescribing the method by which a woman should be nomi- 
nated by the mothers of her own uterine kindred, the method 
by which the choice should be confirmed, first by her own, 
and then by sister, and then by cousin clans, and then 
finally how this candidate should be installed at a federal 
council of condolence and installation. These laws also 
prescribe the method by which such chieftainess can, for 
cause, be deposed and a successor nominated and installed 
as prescribed by these laws; and they also prescribe the 
method of nominating and installing the male aid to the 
chieftainess, who must be a warrior and an orator to fulfill 
his adjuvant duties 
As a member of the United States Geographic Board, 
representing thereon the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
