SIXTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT 3 



Bibliography of Arctic Literature and Roster of Arctic Specialists. 

 In continuation of the archeological program begun in 1948 Dr. 

 Collins left Washington in May to conduct excavations at Resolute 

 Bay, Cornwallis Island, N. W. T., under the joint auspices of the 

 Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Canada. 



From July 1 to September 10 Dr. Fenton was engaged in field work 

 among the Seneca Indians of western New York on a grant from the 

 Viking Fund of New York City. Working at Quaker Bridge on Al- 

 legany Indian Reservation, he obtained a life history of an aged Seneca 

 named Chauncey Johnny John with whom Dr. Fenton has worked 

 since 1933. Especially fine materials were collected on social organi- 

 zation, kinship, and age grades. Twelve reels of recordings were 

 made which included the entire ritual of the Seneca Dark Dance, the 

 opening address and several long prayers belonging to the Green Corn 

 Festival, the entire Women's Rite of Thanksgiving to the cultivated 

 crops, and an origin legend for the False-face Society in Seneca and 

 in English. 



The Fourth Conference on Iroquois Research, under the direction 

 of Dr. Fenton, met at Red House, N. Y., October 8-10, to review out- 

 standing accomplishments in Iroquoian studies in the fields of lin- 

 guistics, ethnology, and archeology. The Proceedings of the Con- 

 ference, edited by Dr. Fenton, were issued in mimeograph form by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



The project of collecting materials for a political history of the Six 

 Nations was reported in a general paper to the American Philosophical 

 Society on November 4. The same research led to examining the 

 Kirkland Papers in Hamilton College Library, and on December 1 

 Dr. Fenton addressed the College on its founder: "Samuel Kirkland: 

 Observer, Negotiator, and Educator.'^ A lecture was given to the 

 Anthropology Club of Syracuse University, and manuscripts were 

 examined in local libraries. Work continued in the manuscript col- 

 lections of the New York Historical Society and at the New York 

 Public Library. The Massachusetts Archives in the State House, 

 the Essex Institute in Salem, and the Peabody Museum of Salem were 

 visited in January. Three reels of the Pickering Papers were com- 

 pleted and filed. Arrangements were made with Dr. C. M. Barbeau 

 of the National Museum of Canada for obtaining microfilm of docu- 

 ments in Canadian libraries for the American Philosophical Society 

 Library. 



During the year Dr. Fenton served as a member of the Language 

 Panel of the United States National Commission for UNESCO; he 

 represented the Smithsonian at meetings of the Policy Board of the 

 United States National Indian Institute, and in subsequent conferences 

 at the State Department toward a Second Inter-American Confer- 



