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territory are annually employed as pickers in the hop 
fields. An effort was made to obtain songs of all im- 
portant classes, from Indians as widely separated as 
possible. More than 125 songs were recorded, among the 
localities represented being the Nass, Skeena, Thompson, 
and Fraser Rivers, Port Simpson, the west coast of 
British Columbia and the southwest coast of Vancouver 
Island. The singers came from a region extending about 
400 miles north and south and about 150 miles east and 
west. ‘Two aged medicine men recorded songs which they 
use at the present time in treating the sick, and numerous 
healing songs were recorded by other Indians. One was 
for the cure of smallpox; in another the doctor addressed 
the seal, grizzly bear, and deer, asking their help, while 
the next song contained their favorable response. The 
medicine men appreciated the value of the work and 
recorded their songs without reluctance. 
Mention should be made of the slahal game played often 
at the hop camp by a large number of Indians, with crowds 
of Indian spectators. The songs and method of playing 
the game were recorded, the players were photographed 
during a game, and the bone game implements were loaned 
for photographic purposes. 
Seven manuscripts on the foregoing field work were 
submitted to the Bureau of American Ethnology with 
the following titles: ‘‘Songs of the Quileute Indians’”’; 
‘‘Makah and Clayoquot songs for treating the sick and 
Makah songs in honor of the dead’’; ‘‘Klokali songs of 
the Makah Indians’’; ‘‘Songs of Indians living on the 
Sliamey and Homaco Reserves in British Columbia’’; 
‘‘Songs of Indians living at Port Simpson and on the 
Skeena and Nass Rivers in British Columbia’’; ‘‘Makah 
and Clayoquot songs’’; and ‘‘Songs and dances presented: 
on Makah Day, 1926, at Neah Bay, Wash.’’ A paper was 
also submitted entitled ‘‘A comparison between Pawnee 
songs and those previously analyzed,’”’ with 18 tables of 
analysis. The number of manuscript pages was 178 and 
the number of transcribed songs 124. 
