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begun among that people and elaborated the system of analyzing their songs. 

 After spending several weeks on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Wis- 

 consin she accompanied the Chippewa from that reservation to the Menominee 

 Reservation in the same State, where the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa cere- 

 monially presented two drums to the Menominee. This ceremony was closely 

 observed, photographs being taken and the speeches of presentation translated, 

 and the songs of the ceremony were recorded by Miss Densmore on a phono- 

 graph after the return of the drum party to Lac du Flambeau. Many of the 

 songs are of Sioux origin, as the ceremony was adopted from that people ; con- 

 sequently the songs were analyzed separately from those of Chippewa origin. 

 Numerous old war songs were recorded at Lac du Flambeau, also songs said 

 to have been composed during dreams, and others used as accompaniments 

 to games and dances. The analytical tables published during the year in Bul- 

 letin 45, Chippewa Music, have been combined by Miss Densmore with those of 

 songs collected during the year 1910-11, making a total of 340 Chippewa songs 

 under analysis. These are analyzed in 12 tables, showing the structure, tone 

 material, melodic progression, and rhythm of the songs, the rhythm of the 

 drum, the relation between the metric unit of the voice and drum, and other 

 points bearing on the development and form of primitive musical expression. 

 This material is now almost ready for publication. The Sioux songs of the 

 drum presentation ceremony, similarly analyzed, constitute the beginning of 

 an analytical study of the Sioux music, which will be continued and extended 

 during the fiscal year 1911-12. 



Miss Alice C. Fletcher and Mr. La Flesche conducted the final proof revision 

 of their monograph on the Omaha tribe, to accompany the twenty-seventh 

 annual report, which was in press at the close of the fiscal year. This memoir 

 will comprise 658 printed pages and will form the most complete monograph 

 of a single tribe that has yet appeared. 



Mr. J. P. Dunn, whose studies of the Algonquian tribes of the Middle West 

 have been mentioned in previous reports, deemed it advisable, before continu- 

 ing his investigation of the languages of the tribes comprising the former 

 Illinois confederacy, to await the completion of the copying of the anonymous 

 manuscript Miami-French Dictionary, attributed to Pere Joseph Ignatius Le 

 Boulanger, in the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, Rhode Island. 

 Through the courteous permission of Mr. George Parker Winship, librarian, 

 the bureau has been enabled to commence the copying of this manuscript, the 

 difficult task being assigned to Miss Margaret Bingham Stillwell, under Mr. 

 Winship's immediate direction. At the close of the fiscal year 20i pages of the 

 original (comprising 95 pages of transcript), of the total of 155 pages of the 

 dictionary proper, were finished and submitted to the bureau. It is hoped 

 that on the completion of the copying the bureau will have a basis for the 

 study of the Miami and related languages that would not be possible among the 

 greatly modified remnant of the Indians still speaking them. 



Prof. Howard M. Ballou, of Honolulu, has continued the preparation of the 

 List of Works Relating to Hawaii, undertaken in collaboration with the late 

 Dr. Cyrus Thomas, and during the year submitted the titles of many early 

 publications, including those of obscure books printed in the Hawaiian language. 



Mr. John P. Harrington, of the School of American Archaeology, proceeded in 

 March to the Colorado Valley in Arizona and California for the purpose of 

 continuing his studies, commenced a few years before, among the Mohave 

 Indians, and incidentally to make collections for the United States National 

 Museum. Mr. Harrington was still among these Indians at the close of July, 

 and the results of his studies, which cover every phase of the life of this 

 interesting people, are to be placed at the disposal of the bureau for publication. 



