ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 



in field service in Canada and very briefly in New York 

 State. 



Mr. Hewitt devoted much careful research among various 

 documents to ascei'tain, if possible, the symbolic significance 

 of white and purple wampum beads, respectively, and also 

 ^A'hen these are mixed in definite proportions and arrange- 

 ment on strings or belts; but much reading of docmnents 

 which might bear on the question was comparatively barren 

 of any satisfactory results. He was led to this study because, 

 in modern time at least, strings of wampum function and have 

 functioned quite prominently in the public transactions of 

 the Council of the League of the Iroquois. Wampum strings 

 are an essential accompaniment in the use of the ritual of 

 the Requickening Address of the Council of Condolence 

 and Installation of the League. 



Mr. Hewitt also transliterated an Ottawa mythic text from 

 the common missionary alphabet into that of the Powell 

 phonetic system designed for the use of collaborators of the 

 bureau. 



He also typed in native Mohawk text the chanted ritual, 

 the Eulogy of the Founders of the League, as intoned by the 

 Father Tribal Sisterhood, incorporating therein such revi- 

 sional additions, textual and grammatic, as had been found 

 necessary by extensive field studies. Mr. Hewitt also typed 

 in native Onondaga text this ritual in the form in which it is 

 intoned by the Mother Tribal Sisterhood. These two ver- 

 sions of the eulogy differ chiefly in the introductory para- 

 graphs and also in the terms or forms of address. Mr. 

 Hewitt continued to represent the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, on the United States 

 Geographic Board, and as a member also of its executive 

 committee. 



On the afternoon of May 7, 1930, Mr. Hewitt left Wash- 

 ington on field duty, returning to the bureau July 1. During 

 this trip he visited the Grand River Reservation of the Six 

 Nations of Indians near Brantford, Canada, the Tuscarora 

 Reservation near Niagara Falls, N. Y., and the Onondaga 

 Reservation near Syracuse, N. Y. Largely through his own 

 knowledge of the several Iroquois languages, he was able to 



