peuple Méxicain" (Angers, 1897, 45 pp. 8°).—In the "American Antiquarian" for July–August, 1897 (vol. xix. pp. 187–190), there is reprinted from the "Journal of the American Geographical Society" a brief account of "Omitlán, a Prehistoric City in Mexico," four hundred archæological objects from which are now in the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Among the finds is mentioned "a tablet with hieroglyphics."
Moki. To the "Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology," 1894–95 (Washington, 1897), Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff contributes (pp. 73–196) a detailed account of "The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona," some of which at least belong to the Hopi or Moki Indians. Of interest to folk-lorists are the sections on kiva decorations (pp. 178–182) and storage and burial cists (pp. 166–170).
Zuǹi. To "The Work and Words of the National Congress of Mothers" (First Annual Session), Washington, 1897 (second edition), Mr. F. H. Cushing contributes an interesting and valuable paper (pp. 21–46) on "Primitive Motherhood," as found among the Zuñi Indians. Mother-rule, mother-thought, mother-worship, child-birth, child-training, are all touched upon, and the article closes with the text and translation of a Zuñi lullaby. In Zuñi, it is worth noting, the word o-kya, "woman," really signifies "creator (or maker) of being," and well in their speech, song, and story have these people done honor to the noblest being they knew. Mr. Cushing rightly determines that such a folk should be called "mother worshippers," not "phallic worshippers."
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Maya. Dr. Paul Schellhas's "Die Göttergestalten der Maya Landschaften" (Dresden, 1897, 34 pp. 8°) is another valuable and suggestive addition to the literature of Mayan mythology, illustrated with many cuts. In the interpretation of the "figures of gods," the author is easily among the best of all students of the codices.—In the "American Anthropologist" for August, 1897, Mr. M. H. Saville writes briefly (vol. x. p. 272) of "A Primitive Maya Musical Instrument," the hool, or "musical bow," used by the natives at Loltun, in Yucatan.—To the "Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology," 1894–95 (Washington, 1897), Professor Cyrus Thomas contributes an extended article on the "Day Symbols of the Maya Year" (pp. 199–265).
SOUTH AMERICA.
Araucanian. As reprints from the "Añales de la Universidad de Chile" (tomo xciv. 1897), Dr. Rodolfo Lenz, in continuation of
