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Volume II, Number 9 DECEMBER, 1902
The
American Museum Journal
With Title-Page, Table Of Contents, Etc., To Volume Ii.
Published monthly, except July to September, by THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY New York City
Entered August 15, 1902, as second-class matter, Post Office at New York, N. Y. Act of Congress of July 16, 1894.
American Museum of Natural History
Officers
President Morris K. Jesup First Vice-President
WILLIAM E. DopceE
Second Vice-President
ENRY F. BORN Treasurer HENR Os
Charles Lanier
Director
Hermon C. Bumpus
Secretary and Assistant Treasurer
Joun H. WINSER
Board Of Trustees
Morris K. Jesup Adrian Iselin
D. Willis James Archibald Rogers
J. Pierpont Morgan Joseph H. Choate William E. Dodge
William C. Whitney Gustav E. Kissel Anson W. Hard
J. HAMPDEN ROBB WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER CHARLES LANIER GEORGE G. HAVEN D. O. MILLS H. O. HAVEMEYER ABRAM 8S. HEWITT A. D. JUILLIARD ALBERT S. BICKMORE FREDERICK E. HYDE ANDREW H. GREEN PERCY R. PYNE
Henry F. Osborn
THe AMERICAN Museum oF NaturRAL History was established in 1869 to promote the Natural Sciences and to diffuse a general knowledge of them among the people, and it is in cordial coéoperation with all similar institutions throughout the world. Since the Museum authorities are dependent upon private subscriptions and the dues from the members for procuring needed additions to the collections and for carrying on explorations in America and other parts of the world, the attention of persons interested in such matters is called to the brief statement of deeds and needs on the fourth page of the cover of the Supplement.
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VoL. II. DECEMBER, 1902 No 9.
=)HE Thirteenth International Congress of Americanists was held in the halls of the Museum from October 20 to 25, in accordance with the invitation of President Morris Kk. Jesup. The officers of the Congress, who were elected at the first ses-
sion, were as follows: THE BUREAU OF THE CONGRESS
President, Morris K. JESupP,
President American Museum of Natural History.
Honorary President, THE DuKE or Lousat,
Correspondent of the Institute of France (Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres).
Vice-Presidents:
For the Argentine Republic, JuAN B. AMBRosETTI, National Museum; for Mexico, ALFREDO CHAVERO; for France, L£Eon LEJEAL, College of France; for Germany, Kar. VON DEN STEINEN, University of Berlin; for Sweden, HJALMAR STOLPE, Royal Ethnographical Museum; for the United States, F. W. Putnam, American Museum of Natural History. General Secretary, M. H. SAvILLE, American Museum of Natural History. Treasurer, HARLAN I. SmitH, American Museum of Natural History.
Council: LEopo_tpo Batres, Mexican Government; FRANCISCO BELMAR, State of Oaxaca, Mexico; JoHN H. BiLes, University of Glasgow, Scotland; Witiiam P. Brake, Territory of Arizona; Franz Boas, Columbia University; E.G. Bourne, Yale University; CHARLES P. Bowpitcu, American Anti-
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quarian Society; Davin BoyLe, Canadian Government; H. C. Bumpus, American Museum of Natural History; Syp- NEY H. Carney, Jr., New York Historical Society; A. F. CHAMBERLAIN, Clark University; ALonzo M. Criapo, Government of Paraguay; STEWART CULIN, University of Pennsylvania, American Philosophical Society, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia; GrorGE A. DorRSsEY, Field Columbian Museum; G. T. Emmons, U. 8S. Navy; HENRI PITTIER DE FABREGA, Instituto Physico-Geografico of Costa Rica; Livincston FAaRRAND, New York Academy of Sciences; ALONZO FERNANDEZ, State of Mexico, Mexico; Juan F. FerrRAz, Costa Rica; ALicE C. FLETCHER, Peabody Museum, Harvard University; D.C. Gitman, Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Institution; STANSBURY HAGAR, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; C. V. HARTMAN, Swedish Anthropological Society ; Luis A. HERRERA, Government of Uruguay; F. W. HopGE, Smithsonian Institution; W. J. HOLLAND, Carnegie Museum; W.H. Homes, U.S. National Museum; A. L. KRoeBEr, University of California; N1icoLas L£oNn, Mexican Government; A. P. Maupstay, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Mrs. ViR- GINIA McCiurc, Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association; G. G. MacCurpy, Anthropological Society of Paris; W J McGee, National Geographic Society; J. D. McGuire, American Anthropological Association; Epwarp S. Morseg, National Academy of Sciences; ZELIA NUTTALL, University of California; A. S. PackKarp, Brown University; L. C. vAN PaNnuuys, Netherlands Government; N. BoLet PERAZA, Government of Honduras; Mrs. C. E. Putnam, Davenport Academy of Science; EDUARD SELER, German Government; FREDERICK STARR, University of Chicago; J. J. STEVENSON, New York University; Max Unte, University of California; Jas. GRANT Witson, American Ethnological Society.
The question of the early remains of man on this continent
naturally received much attention at this Congress and papers on subjects pertaining thereto were read by several of the dele-
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gates. In addition to the ancient human remains which have been found in California, lowa, Nebraska, Mississippi and Illinois, discoveries have been made during the last fifteen years in a so-called interglacial gravel deposit along the Delaware River near Trenton, New Jersey, which have indicated a very high antiquity for man in America. Prof. F. W. Putnam laid before the Congress the results obtained by the careful and extensive investigations of Ernst Volk in the Trenton gravel during the last ten years, illustrating his remarks with the articles obtained, which are now in the American Museum. The most important discoveries consist of the remains of several skeletons which were unearthed in the summer of 1899. They lay beneath two feet of black clay and five feet of yellow and greenish-yellow sand, belonging to the glacial deposits, and containing all the indications of glacial action. The black bed is considered to belong to the time during which the ice-front made its first retreat. The bed of sand shows thin, easily-recognized streaks which vary in color from white to greenish-yellow, clear yellow and dark yellow. Inasmuch as these bands nowhere show any succeeding disturbance, it follows without question that the skeleton reached the place in which it was discovered before the laying down of the sand bed. Furthermore, south of Trenton, there has been exhumed from a sand bed a left human femur in the vicinity of which there was also discovered an elk bone and fragments of bones of the musk-ox. In addition to these there were found several pieces of stone which showed indubitable evidence of human workmanship, so that now it can no longer be doubted that the fact has been established that America was inhabited by men during Glacial time. How many thousand years ago this period may have been is a question which cannot yet be answered with certainty, but it may well have been between 10,000 and 20,000 years.
In March of the present year there were discovered in the vicinity of Lansing, Kansas, a human skull and some other bones which lay from 19 to 20 feet below the surface of the ground and 69 feet from the mouth of the tunnel the digging of which led to their
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discovery. The material of the bed in which the objects were found is loess. The question of the Lansing skull and its relations was discussed in papers by Professors T. C. Chamberlin, W. H. Holmes and S. W. Williston and Drs. George A. Dorsey and Ales Hrdli¢ka. In type and measurements the skull has proved to be scarcely different from the average of those of the present American Indian. The locality where the find was made has been studied by several geologists, and Professor T. C. Chamberlin states that in his opinion at least 8000 years must have elapsed since the deposition of the beds in which the skull was found. In reference to the similarity between the Lansing skull and the skulls of the present Indians, Professor Putnam remarked that it only served as a further argument for the high antiquity of the Indian race in America. Prof. Franz Boas has arrived at similar conclusions regarding the long human occupation of this continent on account of the great complexity of the American people in reference to their languages and characteristics.
Professor Boas detailed to the members of the Congress the results which have been obtained for the Museum through the labors of the men engaged on the Jesup North Pacific expedition, information regarding which has been given at length in previous numbers of the' JOURNAL.
Several of the important papers submitted to the Congress pertained to the archeology of Mexico. Among these may be mentioned particularly those of Alfredo Chavero, Leopoldo Batres, Nicolas Léon, M. H. Saville, Edward H. Thompson and Mrs. Zelia Nuttall.
M. H. Saville read a paper upon the new discoveries near Mitla, which he made in the course of investigations provided for through the liberality of the Duke of Loubat. Among other things Mr. Saville made clear that the temples at Mitla, like all other sacred buildings of ancient Mexico, have been erected upon terrace-like substructures which, however, here have been destroyed to a great extent by the action of wind and weather. He also made mention of a new cruciform subterranean chamber which he discovered under one of the largest temples in Mitla in
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a state of perfect preservation. This chamber has an extreme length of about 45 ft. and is the most important structure of its class thus far found in Mexico.
Mr. Batres gave a description of the discoveries made in the year 1900 behind the cathedral in the City of Mexico while excavations were in progress for the new drainage system of the city. The speaker stated that during these excavations more than 8000 different objects had been brought to light, among which were numerous idols, elaborately painted urns, stone knives and various votive offerings, and that the number of articles of jewelry made of gold, turquoise, jade, onyx and other valuable stones was very large. Many of the objects show in their workmanship a high degree of perfection. The scientific investigation of this material is sure to throw much new light upon the culture of the Aztecs. In this connection also the papers of Prof. Eduard Seler on the religious compositions and picture-writings of the ancient Mexicans were of great value.
Mrs. Zelia Nuttall read a paper upon the self-inflicted tortures of the religious devotees of the ancient Mexicans in which she stated that on certain days the tongue, ears or other parts of the body of the devotee were pierced with pointed sticks or the sharp thorns of the agave. The blood flowing from the wound was caught in sacrificial vessels which were then placed at the feet of the representations of the gods.
Edward Thompson displayed a complete series of reproductions in color of the wall paintings which he had discovered on the peninsula of Yucatan in the temples of Chacmultun and gave a clear idea of the heretofore practically unknown color-materials of the Mayas. The conclusion to which Mr. Thompson has arrived is that these people used nothing but vegetable colors in the decoration of their walls, among which one can distinguish two shades of blue, two different greens, besides red, brownishred, yellow, black and white. The colors were put on with an oily fat, and by means of a fine brush of hair, upon the creamcolored stucco which formed the surface of the walls. In their character the paintings remind one of the naive pictures with
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which the monks of the middle ages in Europe decorated their manuscripts and church walls. Mr. Thompson also displayed to the Americanists by means of kinetoscopic pictures a Yucatan sun-dance, and at the same time gave phonographic records of the songs which were sung during each of the dances.
A. P. Maudslay displayed forty magnificent enlargements of photographs of Maya ruins and sculptures and a copy of his monumental work upon these antiquities, a work which marks an epoch in the history of the investigation of the culture of these people. Miss Adela Breton exhibited her copies of the well-known mural paintings of Chichen Itza.
The discoveries which have been made by the explorations of the Hyde Expedition under George H. Pepper of the Museum were detailed to the Congress in an important communication regarding the excavations made at Pueblo Bonito. Pueblo Bonito is, perhaps, the most important ruined city of New Mexico, and consists of an enormous building in the shape of a halfellipse with a circumference of 1300 feet, and contains more than 640 rooms, in which between three and four thousand persons could find accommodation. Among the thousands of objects which have been found there those are of especial interest which have been discovered in the so-called Kiwa, the sacred treasure-house of the different religious orders of the Pueblo. Among these are countless remarkable ceremonial staffs and sacred utensils, beautiful amulets and pendants from costly turquoise, and bituminous coal, and a few painted terra-cotta jars, which from their form seemed to be better adapted for drinking vessels than for the carrying out of religious ritual.
The present-day Indians were discussed in various relations. Miss Alice Fletcher and Dr. George A. Dorsey read papers on the ritualistic ceremonies of the Pawnee, from which it appeared that the belief in the Great Spirit which is to be found in many Indian tribes (the Wakan-tanka of the Sioux, the Manitou of the Ojibwa) is more highly developed among the Pawnee perhaps than in any other Indian tribe in America. Tarawah, the Great Spirit of the Pawnee, is not merely the master of life but also the
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source of all things, the ruler of the stars and of the universe in general. During their religious ceremonies an especial place is kept for him in the tent beside the fire, which is too holy for any one to dare to step upon, but which one honors through gentle touching with the finger tips.
It is entirely impossible to give in our contracted: space an adequate idea of the full programme of the Americanists' Congress, and the scientific discussions of the Indian picture-writing, migrations, languages, customs, traditions, musical and artistic accomplishments etc. It may suffice to state that, in spite of the five days which the Congress lasted, only about two-thirds of the 105 papers which were presented could be read in full or even in abstract, the remainder being read only by title. On account of the multifarious duties of the Secretary of the Congress and the early date at which it was necessary to put the foregoing report into shape, it has been made up from newspaper accounts and other sources and does not lay claim to any degree of fulness. About 150 members were present at the various sessions of the Congress and the international character of the convention may be judged from the fact that delegates from twenty different nations were present. During the week following the sessions of the Congress the foreign members in attendance were the guests of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. on an excursion which included visits to Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg, " Fort Ancient" (in southern Ohio) and Chicago. Everywhere the Americanists were received with the greatest hospitality, and in Washington were given a reception by President Roosevelt.
News Notes.
7 OUR expeditions were sent out by the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology during the summer season of 1902. The first went into the region north of Miles City, Montana, seeking for the remains of horned Dinosaurs, under the direction chiefly of Barnum Brown, associated with Prof. R. S. Lull of
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Amherst College and Mr. Brooks, a recent graduate of Amherst. They were successful in discovering a skull which lacked the upper portions of the horns only, and which has an especially complete frill. Portions of the skeleton also of the same animal and of other horned Dinosaurs and the remains of a carnivorous Dinosaur of gigantic size were found; and just before the expedition closed three Crocodile skeletons and portions of the skeletons of several beaked Lizards (rhynchocephalians) were discovered.
The second expedition in Montana, under the leadership of Dr. W. D. Matthew, was in quest of mammals, chiefly of the Miocene period. Two important discoveries were made. First, of the beds containing the remains of some of the smaller animals of the period when the Titanotheres flourished, especially small carnivores and rodents and some primitive species of Horse, among them A\/esohippus weston. The small fauna of the lower Oligocene had already been made known partly through the researches of Earl Douglas, but our collection greatly adds to his interesting results. The second discovery of this party consisted of the lower jaws and extensive portions of the limbs and skeleton of a large Rhinoceros, probably belonging to the species Kk. malacorhinus Cope, a long-limbed animal which has been known hitherto from its skull and a single foot bone only. We are now enabled to give almost the complete characters of this longlimbed and long-skulled type, which stands in marked contrast to the more abundant short-limbed and short-skulled Rhinoceros of the same period, named Teleoceras.
The third expedition, under the leadership of Walter Granger associated with Peter Kaison, returned to the vicinity of the famous Bone Cabin dinosaur quarry of central Wyoming for the fourth year of excavation. The early part of the season was devoted to a new dinosaur quarry discovered by W. H. Reed, and systematically explored by the Museum for the first time in 1901. This quarry proved to be very rich, especially in remains of the giant herbivorous Dinosaur named Camarasaurus. After work was finished at this point, the Bone Cabin quarry was systematically
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explored, and yielded a rich harvest of fifty-two boxes, mostly fine specimens, several of which are new to our collection.
The search for fossil Horses was continued under the direction of J. W. Gidley, especially in the southern portion of South Dakota. The results were only fairly satisfactory, and the first six weeks of exploration in the Niobrara beds was disappointing. Just as the work was drawing to a close, however, a brilliant discovery was made of the remains of a small herd of fossil threetoed horses belonging apparently to the genus H7pparion, and parts of numerous fore and hind limbs in a perfect state of preservation, and one skull and an associated skeleton so complete that it may be mounted were found. This discovery more than repaid the party for all the hard and disappointing work of the early part of the summer, and added another much desired stage to the collection presented to the Museum through the generosity of William C. Whitney, Esq.
After months of most difficult and skilful work, chiefly under the direction of Adam Hermann, three specimens of rare interest have been made ready for exhibition. The first is the complete skeleton of a small new Dinosaur which is to be named 'The Bird Catcher," owing to its apparent capacity for great speed and the long and slender, grasping structure of the hands.
The second specimen is the great Fish Portheus colossus secured by Charles H. Sternberg in Kansas in tg00. This magnificent specimen, sixteen feet in length, has been mounted on a large panel, and we may fairly claim that it is the most striking specimen of a fossil fish in any museum in the world. The missing parts have been restored with the greatest care in light-colored plaster, so that there is no mistaking the restored for the original portions of the specimen.
The third exhibit is the superb pair of tusks and skull of the great Elephas imperator, secured from Texas last year. The tusks are thirteen feet, six inches in length, and twenty-two inches in circumference. The entire upper portion of the skull has been restored in white plaster. The specimen has been
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mounted with a view to showing the actual height of the skull in an animal of corresponding size.
The Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology has recently received a valuable collection of mammals from the vicinity of Repulse Bay, Arctic America, obtained for the Museum by Captain George Comer, consisting of a fine series of Barren Ground Caribou, Musk-Oxen, and of the smaller mammals of the region, including Wolverenes, Arctic Foxes, Weasels, Arctic Hares and various species of Lemmings. This collection of mammals is of especial value to the Museum, being the first it has received from the main-land of Arctic America bordering Hudson Bay.
Recent news from the Andrew J. Stone Expedition, now collecting in northern British Columbia, for the Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology, indicates that the season's work has been very successful, and that the amount of material will far exceed that obtained last year. Up to the middle of September more than thirty large mammals had been collected, consisting of Bears, Foxes, Wolves, Mountain Sheep, Mountain Goats, Moose and Caribou, and about 800 small mammals. The expedition will remain in the field till the end of November, and the collections will probably reach the Museum about the end of December.
Lectures.
During December the following lectures will be given at the Museum: By Prof. A. S. Bickmore to the members of the Museum:
December 4.—'' The French Alps." December 11.—'' Historic Towns of Central France."' December 18.—'' Historic Towns of Southern France and
the French Riviera."
On Christmas Day at 3 p.m. Professor Bickmore will lecture to the general public on "The French Alps.'' No tickets are required for admission.
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Under the auspices of the Board of Education: Tuesday evenings at 8 o'clock, December 2.—Mrs. J. H. Haynes, "The Bedouins of the Euphrates." December g.—-S. W. Naytor, "Jerusalem and Her Environs."' December 16.—G. C. Mars, " Cairo.'
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Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock, December 6.—W. T. Exsinc, "' Ants and Bees."' December 13.—Wwm. HARPER Davis, "Snakes."' No tickets of admission are required.
Meetings Of Scientific Societies.
The programme of the meetings of the New York Academy of Sciences for the month is as follows: December 1.—Business Meeting and Section of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry. December 8.—Section of Biology. December 15.—Annual Meeting and Presidential Address. December 22.—-Section of Geology and Mineralogy. The public is invited to attend these meetings, which are held in the assembly room of the Museum.
The Linnzean Society of New York will hold its regular meetings at the Museum on December 9 and 23.
Scientific Staff
Director Hermon C. Bumpus
Department of Public Instruction Prof. ALBERT S. Bickmore, Curator
Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palzontology
Prof. R. P. WHITFIELD, Curator Epmunp O. Hovey, Ph.D., Associate Curator
Department of Mammalogy and Ornithology
Prof. J. A. ALLEN, Curator FraNK M. CHapMAN, Associate Curator
Department of Vertebrate Paleontology
Prof. HENRY FAIRFIELD OsBorN, Curator W. D. Mattuew, Ph.D., Associate Curator O. P. Hay, Ph.D., Assistant Curator
Department of Entomology WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER, Curator
Departments of Mineralogy and Conchology L. P. Gratacap, A.M., Curator
Department of Invertebrate Zodlogy
Prof. Hermon C. Bumpus, Curator GeorGeE H. SHERwoop, A.M., Assistant Curator
Department of Anthropology Prof. FREDERIC W. Putnam, Curator Prof. Franz Boas, Curator of Ethnology MARSHALL H. Savi..e, Curator of Mexican and Central American Archeology Haran I. Situ, Assistant Curator of Archeology
Library A. Woopwarb, Ph.D.. Librarian
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Part I.—Republication of Descriptions of Lower Carboniferous Crinoidea from the Hall Collection now in the American Museum of Natural History, with Illustrations of the Original Type Specimens not heretofore Figured. By R. P. Whitfield. Pp. 1-37, pll. i-iii, and 14 text cuts. September 15, 1893. Price, $2.00.
PART II.—Republication of Descriptions of Fossils from the Hall Collection in the American Museum of Natural History, from the report of Progress for 1861 of the Geological Survey of Wisconsin, by James Halli, with Illustrations from the Original Type Specimens not heretofore Figured. By R. P. Whitfield. Pp. 39-74, pll. iv-xii. August 10, 1895. Price, $2.00.
Part III.—The Extinct Rhinoceroses. By Henry Fairfield Osborn. Part I. Pp. 75-164, pll. xiia-xx, and 49 text cuts. April 22, 1898. Price, $4.20.
Part IV.—A Complete Mosasaur Skeleton. By Henry Fairfield Osborn. Pp. 165-188, pll. xxi—xxiii, and,15 text figures. October 25, 1899.
Part V.--A Skeleton of Diplodocus. By Henry Fairfield Osborn. Pp. 189-214, pll. xxiv-xxviii, and 15 text figures. October 25, 1899. Price of Parts IV and V, issued under one cover, $2.00.
PART VI.—Monograph of the Sesiidze of America, North of Mexico. By William Beutenmiiller, Pp. 215-352, pll. xxix-xxxvi, and 24 text cuts. March, 1gor. Price, $5.00.
ParT VII.—Fossil Mammals of the Tertiary of Northeastern Colorado. By W. D. Matthew. Pp. 353-447, pll. xxxvii-xxxix, and 34 text cuts. November, Ig0I. Price, $3.00,
Vol. II, Anthropology. Fesup North Pacific Expedition,
ParT I.—Facial Paintings of the Indians of Northern British Columbia. By Franz Boas. Pp. 1-24, pll. i-vi. June 16, 1898. Price, $2.00.
Part II.—The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians, By Franz Boas. Pp. 25-127, pll. vii-xii. November, 1898. Price, $2.00.
ParT III.—The Archeology of Lytton, British Columbia. By Harlan I. Smith. Pp. 129-161, pl. xiii, and 117 text figures. May, 1899. Price, $2.00,
Part IV.—The Thompson Indians of British Columbia. By James Teit. Edited by Franz Boas. Pp. 163-392, pll. xiv-xx, and 198 text figures. April, 1900. Price, $5.00.
Part V.—Basketry Designs of the Salish Indians. By Livingston Farrand. Pp. 393-399, pll. xxi—xxiii, and 15 text figures. April, 1900. Price, 75 cts.
Part VI.—Archeology of the Thompson River Region. By Harlan I. Smith. Pp. 401-442, pll. xxiv-xxvi, and 51 text figures. (With title-page, contents, and index to Vol. II.) June, 1g00. Price, $2.00.
Vol, III, Anthropology (not yet completed).
ParT I.—Symbolism of the Huichol Indians. By Carl Lumholtz. Pp. 1-228, pll. i-iv, and 291 text figures. May, 1900. Price, $5.00.
Vol. IV. Anthropology (not yet completed). Fesup North Pacific Expedition.
Part I.—Traditions of the Chilcotin Indians. By Livingston Farrand. Pp. I-54. June, 1900. Price, $1.50.
Part II.—Cairns of British Columbia and Washington. By Harlan I. Smith and Gerard Fowke. Pp. 55-75, pli. i-v, and g text figures. January, IgoOt. Price, $1.50.
ParT of the Quinault Indians, By Livingston Farrand, assisted by W. S. Kahnweiler.
Vol. V. Anthropology (not yet completed). Fesup North Pacific Expedition. Part I.—Kwakiutl Texts. By Franz Boas and George Hunt.
Vol. VI. Anthropology. Hyde Expedition. The Night Chant, a Navaho Ceremony. By Washington Matthews.
Vol. VII. Anthropology (not yet completed). Fesup North Pacific Expedition. Part I.—The Decorative Art of the Amur Tribes. By Berthold Laufer. Pp. I-79, pll. i-xxxiii, and 24 text figures. December, 1g01. Price, $3.00.
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Ethnographical Album of the North Pacific Coasts of America and Asia. Part I, pp. 1-5, pll. 1-28. August, 1900. Sold by subscription, price $6.00.
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