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house village. One refuse mound containing 12 burials 

 with accompanying mortuary offerings and two pit houses 

 had been investigated at the close of the fiscal year. 



The pit houses were found to be characteristic of that type 

 and quite comparable to those excavated in the Chaco Can- 

 yon in 1927, reported in Bulletin 92 of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, and to those excavated in eastern Arizona 

 in the summer of 1929, described in Bulletin 100 of the bureau. 



From July 1, 1930, to May 10, 1931, J. N. B. Hewitt, 

 ethnologist, was engaged in routine office work, and from the 

 latter date to the end of the fiscal year he was engaged in 

 field service on the Grant of the Six Nations on the Grand 

 River in Ontario, Canada, and, briefly, on the Tuscarora 

 reservation in western New York State. 



Mr. Hewitt devoted much time and study to rearranging 

 and retyping some of his native Iroquoian texts which criti- 

 cal revisions and additional data had made necessary to 

 facilitate interlinear translations and to render such texts as 

 legible as possible for the printer. 



The texts so treated are the Cayuga version of the founding 

 of the League of the Iroquois as dictated by the late Chief 

 Abram Charles; the version of the Eulogy of the Founders 

 as dictated by Chief Jacob Hess in Cayuga, and also his 

 versions of the addresses introducing the several chants ; also, 

 four of the myths of the Wind and Vegetable Gods which are 

 usually represented by wooden faces and husk faces (which 

 are customarily misnamed masks, although their chief pur- 

 pose is to represent, not to mask). The Onondaga texts of 

 these myths were in great need of careful revision, for their 

 relator was extremely careless in his use of the persons and 

 the tenses of the verbs, frequently changing from the third 

 to the second person and from past to future time by uncon- 

 sciously employing the language of the rites peculiar to the 

 faces; and also the decipherment of a set of pictographs or 

 mnemonic figures, designed and employed by the late Chief 

 Abram Charles, of the Grand River Reservation in Canada, 

 to recall to his mind the official names and their order of the 

 49 federal chiefs of the Council of the League of the Iroquois, 

 in chanting the Eulogy of the Founders of the League; and 



