The closing word is the same as the Canienga _watyonkwentendane_, which is found in the closing section of the Canienga book. The lines of the Onondaga hymn which immediately precede this concluding word will be found in Section 20 of that book, a section which is probably meant to be chanted. It will be noticed that the lines of this hymn fall naturally into a sort of parallelism, like that of the Hebrew chants. 30. _Dekarihaokenh_, or _Tehkarihhoken_. In John Buck's MS. the list of chiefs is preceded by the words "_Nene Tehadirihoken_," meaning the Caniengas, or, literally, "the Tekarihokens." For an explanation of this idiom and name, see _ante_, p. 77. _Ayonhwahtha_, or _Hayeirwatha_. This name, which, as Hiawatha, is now familiar to us as a household word, is rendered "He who seeks the wampum belt." Chief George Johnson thought it was derived from _oyonwa_, wampum-belt, and _ratiehwatha_, to look for something, or, rather, to seem to seek something which we know where to find. M. Cuoq refe/s the latter part of the word to the verb _katha_, to make. [Footnote: Lexique de la Langue Iroquois, p. 161] The termination _atha_ is, in this sense, of frequent occurrence in Iroquois compounds. The name would then mean "He who makes the wampum-belt," and would account for the story which ascribes to Hiawatha the invention of wampum. The Senecas, in whose language the word _oyonwa_ has ceased to exist, have corrupted the name to _Hayowentha_, which they render "he who combs." This form of the name has also produced its legend, which is referred to elsewhere (p. 87). Hiawatha "combed the snakes out of Atotarho's head," when he brought that redoubted chief into the confederacy. _Shatekariwalf_, "two equal statements," or "two things equal." This name is derived-from _sate_ or _shate_, equal, and _kariwa_, or _karihwa_, for which see the Glossary. _Etho natejonhne_, "this was your number," or, this was the extent of your class. These words, or the similar form, _etho natehadinhne_, "this was their number," indicate apparently that the roll of chiefs belonging to a particular class or clan is completed. They are followed by three other words which have been already explained (_ante_, pages 33 and 80), _sewater-ihwakhaonghkwe, sewarihwisaanonghkwe, kayanerenhkowa_. In the written litany these three words are omitted toward the close,--probably to save the penman the labor of transcription; but in the actual ceremony it is understood that they are chanted wherever the formula _etho natejonhne_, or _etho natchadinhne_, occurs. In the modern Canienga speech this verb is thus conjugated in the plural,--_etho_ being contracted to _eh_:-- _ehnatetionhne_, we were that number; _ehnatejionhne_, ye were that number; _ehnatehadinhne_, they were that number. The three Canienga councillors of the first class all belong to the Tortoise clan.