LiL BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
Mr. Myer was not able to determine the age of these mounds, 
but buildings which they represent were undoubtedly 
destroyed before the coming of the white people. 
One of the most interesting results of the summer’s work 
was the excavation of a small mound on the Denny farm at 
Goodlettsville, Sumner County, Tenn., the relics from this 
mound showing that the inhabitants of this site belonged to 
a culture quite unlike that of much of the surrounding region 
in the valley of the Cumberland. 
Mr. Myer also made studies in the southern part of 
Tennessee in Lincoln and Moore Counties and made a map 
of a hitherto undescribed mound group on Elk River. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
During the summer of 1923 Miss Frances Densmore 
visited the Makah Indians at Neah Bay, Wash., and re- 
corded their songs. Neah Bay is near the end of Cape 
Flattery, but the coast is so mountainous that it is reached 
only by boat. At the time of Miss Densmore’s visit there 
was only one passenger boat a week to this village. The 
principal industry of the Indians is salmon fishing. The 
purpose of this trip was to observe the music of Indians 
who live beside the ocean and to compare the music with 
that of tribes living on the mountains, plains, and desert. 
As a result of the comparison it was found that the music 
of the Makah resembles that of the Ute, Papago, and Yuma 
more than it resembles that of the Chippewa, Sioux, and 
Pawnee. This is general observation, the detailed com- 
parison being unfinished. Three instances are as follows: 
(1) The Makah Indians use a “high drone,” or sustained 
tone held by two or three women’s voices, while the others 
sing the melody. This was heard among the Papago in 
southern Arizona and is found in certain parts of Asia. 
This suggests a cultural evidence that the Indians migrated 
from Asia and down the Pacific coast, the use of the drone 
being more pronounced among the Makah than among the 
Papago; (2) the Makah Indians have a considerable number 
of “nonharmonic”’ songs to which the term “key” can not 
properly be applied. These were found in southern Arizona 
