Iroquoian.A. M. Stephen. The paper is a valuable addition to the scanty literature embodying detailed accounts of Pueblo sun-worship. The winter solstice ceremony is one of the most complicated in all the calendar of these Indians, and its general features "stamp it as the creation of a people who have been agriculturalists under the influence of an arid environment for a longer time than some of the other Hopi families." Very prominent are two dominant elements in all Hopi ceremonials, "rain-making" and "corn-growth." This excellent paper closes with a "Bibliography of the Tusayan Ritual," and has appeared as a reprint (Washington, 1898) of 38 pp. sm. 4to.
Uto-Aztrecan. In "Globus" (vol. lxxiii. pp. 123–129), Dr. E. Seler writes of the pyramid-temple of Tepoztlan, with its hieroglyphs, not a few of which he seems to have identified.—In the "Arch. per l'Antropol." (vol. xxvii. pp. 395, 396), Dr. E. H. Giglioli describes (after Kollmann) a trumpet terminating in a human skull, said to be derived "from Palenque or Cholula," and resembling similar South American instruments (from the Tupi tribe of the Yuruna on the Xingu).—Under the title "Trephining in Mexico," Carl Lumholtz and Ales Hrdlicka give an account in the "American Anthropologist" (vol. x. pp. 389–396) for December, 1897, of two trephined Tarahumara skulls from Chihuahua.
Zuni. In the "American Anthropologist" (vol. xi. pp. 33–40) for February, 1898, Mrs. M. C. Stevenson writes of "Zuñi Ancestral Gods and Masks." Creation myths, legends of tribal origin, and descriptions of the gods make up this interesting résumé of a part of Zuñi theology. Notes of the initiation of children into the secret society of the Kók-ko are added. The author observes: "The dramas enacted by the personators of the gods are elaborate and full of interest to the people, and, while the actors endure many hardships and privations, they derive great joy from it all."
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Mayan. To the "American Anthropologist" (vol. x. pp. 397–412) for December, 1897, Mr. L. W. Gunckel contributes an article on the "Analysis of the Deities of Maya Inscriptions." Brief accounts, with illustrations, are given of 27 heads of divinities, based upon the author’s card catalogue of glyphs from Maudslay and other writers who have published plates of inscriptions.—"Die Tagegötter der Mayas" are discussed by Dr. E. Förstemann in "Globus" (vol. lxxiii. pp. 137, 162). The paper is a valuable study of the relation between the Maya day-names and deity-names.—The "Century" Magazine (vol. lv. pp. 407–419) contains an article by G. B. Gordon, entitled "The Mysterious City of Honduras: an account of recent discoveries in Copan."—In "Globus" (vol. lxxiii.
