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beau Reservation in Wisconsin she accompanied the Chip- 

 pewa from that reservation to the IMenominee Reservation 

 in the same State, where the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa 

 ceremonially presented two drums to the Menominee. 

 This ceremony was closely observed, photographs being 

 taken and the speeches of presentation translated, and the 

 songs of the ceremony were recorded by Miss Densmore on 

 a phonograph after the return of the drum party to Tiac du 

 Flambeau. ]\Iany of the songs are of Sioux origin, as the 

 ceremony was adopted from that people ; consequently the 

 songs were analyzed separately from those of Chippewa 

 origin. Nimierous old war songs were recorded at Lac du 

 Flambeau, also songs said to have been composed during 

 dreams, and others used as accompaniments to games and 

 dances. The analytical tables published during the year 

 in Bulletin 45, Chippewa Music, have been combined bj- 

 Miss Densmore with those of songs collected during the 

 year 1910-11, making a total of 340 Chippewa songs under 

 analysis. These are analyzed in 12 tables, showing the 

 structure, tone material, melodic progression, and rhythm 

 of the songs, the rhythm of the drvun, the relation between 

 the metric unit of the voice and drum, and other points 

 bearing on the development and form of primitive musical 

 expression. This material is now almost ready for publi- 

 cation. The Sioux songs of the Drum-presentation cere- 

 mony, similarly analyzed, constitute the beginning of an 

 analytical study of the Sioux music, which will be con- 

 tinued and extended during the fiscal year 1911-12. 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher and Mr. La Flesche conducted 

 the final proof revision of their monograph on the Omaha 

 tribe, to accompany the Twenty-seventh Annual Report, 

 which was in press at the close of the fiscal year. This 

 memoir will comprise 658 printed pages and will form the 

 most complete monograph of a single tribe that has yet 

 appeared. 



Mr. J. P. Dunn, whose studies of the Algonquian tribes 

 of the Middle West have been mentioned in previous re- 

 ports, deemed it advisable, before continuing his investi- 



