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also to recall the 15 sections or burdens of the great Requick- 

 ening Address of the Council of Condolence and Installation ; 

 this paper with illustrations is nearly ready for the printer; 

 and also a critical study of the matter of the Onondaga and 

 the Cayuga texts, giving the several variant versions of the 

 events attending the birth and childhood and work of 

 Deganawida. He was born of a virgin mother, which indi- 

 cated that underlying them there appeared to be an ideal 

 figure, although of course unexpressed. This discovery 

 showed the need for thorough search in the field for a living 

 tradition in which this ideal is fully expressed. Further 

 search was deferred to field work. It was clear that such an 

 ideal enhanced the beauty of the birth story of Deganawida 

 and made more interesting the historicity of such a person. 

 Mr. Hewitt had the great satisfaction of recovering such a 

 tradition in his subsequent field researches. He found that 

 the inferiority complex had precluded his present informants 

 from expressing themselves during the lifetime of other 

 informants, whose recent deaths opened their mouths without 

 the fear of contradiction. The death of Abram Charles 

 within the year made these shy informants vocal. 



In January Matthew W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, requested Mr. Hewitt to undertake the 

 editing of the Manuscript Journal of Rudolph Friederich 

 Kurz, of Berne, Switzerland, in the manner in which he had 

 prepared the Edwin Thompson Denig Report on the Indian 

 Tribes of the Upper Missouri River, published in the Forty- 

 sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 The Kurz manuscript was written in German during the 

 years 1846 to 1852. The typed German text consists of 454 

 pages of large legal-cap size, while the English translation 

 of it by Myrtis Jarrell occupies 780 pages. The journal is a 

 narrative of Mr. Kurz's experiences in a trip up the Missis- 

 sippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, thence up the 

 Missouri to Fort Union at the mouth of the Yellowstone 

 River, and of his difficulties with the Indians while endeavor- 

 ing to make drawings or pictures of them. There are 125 

 pen sketches of Indians and others accompanying the 

 manuscript. 



