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journeyed southward ; that during the course of their loni;-continued 

 migrations tliev changed rather ra])idly from a semi-nomadic to a 

 sedentary h'fe as they approached the Rio Colorado. J hiving 

 gainetl the "red rock " country and having found, for the tir>i time, 

 natural caves that increased the protection attorded 1)\ their small 

 dwellings, they became more close!}- related, if not identical, in cul- 

 ture to those people commonly recognized as the ancestors of the 

 modern Pueblo Indians. 



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l-"ii.. 71. — Walls ot rectangular duelliii.ys huilt aliove the remains of a 

 circular room. The upright slahs in the torefiround formed the inner 

 wall l)a.se of the latter structure. 



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-Mr. J. .\. I'l. 1 k-witt left Washington May 1 _'. i<)Mj. 011 field duty. 

 On the Onondaga reservation near Syracuse. X. ^ .. he foimd only 

 fragmentary remnants of the League rituals, lau^ and chants, aggrc 

 gating less tlian j.cxx) native terms ; but these rituals, laws ami chanis 

 are so much broken and wasted away, and their se\er;d remainiuL: 

 ]»arts are so c(jnfused and intermi.xed the one with the other th.it 

 with these remains alone it would be (juite impossible to obtain even 

 an approximate view of their origin;il content, torms, ;md settings. 

 The texts which .Mr. Hewitt has recorded among the t .inadi.m 

 Iroi|Uois aggregate more than iJ5.rxx) native terms. During the twc 

 weeks ^pent on this reservation .Mr. Hewitt recorded in Onondaga 



