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phonograph records of Indian musie was the new work 
for the year. 
On May 8, 1927, Mr. Hewitt went to Brantford, Canada, 
where he resumed his researches, studying intensively the 
rituals, laws, customs, and chants characteristic of the 
League of the Iroquois. 
In 1896 Chief Seth Newhouse, a Mohawk, showed Mr. 
Hewitt a document upon which he had been working for 
more than 15 years. It purported to be the constitution 
and by-laws of the League of the Iroquois, in the compila- 
tion of which Mr. Newhouse had, visited all the Iroquois 
reservations known to him in both Canada and the United 
States. Mr. Newhouse was an _ exceptionally fluent 
speaker in Mohawk, but instead of recording the material 
in the Mohawk tongue he painfully recorded it in pic- 
turesque broken English. Mr. Hewitt realized that the 
significance of the materials contained in this document 
had been lost in the attempted translation and finally con- 
vinced Mr. Newhouse that it was his duty to render the 
ideas underlying the English of the document into 
Mohawk. This he did in 1898, and the study of this mate- 
rial is one of Mr. Hewitt’s present occupations. 
Mr. Hewitt also recorded a Cayuga version of the Chant 
Along the Trails or The Chant of the Roll of the Founders 
of the Lodge; a Cayuga version of the chant, Over the 
Great Forest; the music scores of the several chants of 
the condoling and installation rituals of the league; and 
an ‘‘ Introduction’ in Cayuga and Onondaga to the 
second part of the requickening address which is uttered 
in the principal place of assembly. 
Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, jr., archeologist, joined the staff 
of the Bureau of American Ethnology on November 1, 
1926. His winter months were devoted to a study of the 
ceramics of the San Juan area of the Southwest. Doctor 
Roberts left Washington April 27 for Boulder, Colo., 
where a study of early ceramic forms was made in the 
museum of the University of Colorado. 
On May 6 he visited El Paso, Tex., for the purpose of 
investigating certain caves in a small range of mountains 
