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tries of the American aborigines. The materials gathered by Dr. 

 Hrdlicka form, it is beheved, the most important exhibit within this 

 particular field that has ever been brought together. They were col- 

 lected lai-gely through expeditions conducted by Dr. Hrdlicka per- 

 sonally. The exhibits cover, in as many halls, man's evolution, the 

 life cycle of man, man's variations, and human pathology, with dissolu- 

 tion. A large room is fitted out as an anthropological laboratory, lec- 

 ture room, and library. The exhibit prepared by Professor Holmes 

 includes six lay-figure groups illustrating: Copper mining on Isle Royal, 

 Michigan; iron and paint mining in Missouri; quarrying and working 

 of soapstone and of obsidian in California ; flint arrow makers ; and stone 

 cutters of Mitla, Mexico. These are supplemented by collections of 

 the products of aboriginal handiwork and by two cases of casts of the 

 sculptural work of North and South America. The exhibits, which 

 are shown in the Arts and Crafts Building, will probably become part 

 of a permanent museum in San Diego. 



Dr. Fewkes made a trip last month primarily to examine two of the 

 possible trails by which prehistoric cultural interchanges between Mex- 

 ico and our Southwest were effected. These were the valleys of the 

 Santa Cruz in Arizona and of the Mimbres in New Mexico, both ex- 

 tending north and south. The ruins from Tucson to the Mexican bor- 

 der along the Santa Cruz are of the Casa Grande type. The old mis- 

 sion of Tumacacori, south of Tucson, preserved as a national monu- 

 ment, must be attended to within a few years or its walls will fall. 

 The Papagueria, or desert home of the Papagos, is one of the most in- 

 structive unexplored regions in the Southwest. In the valley of the 

 Mimbres are ruins showing cultural resemblances between Old and 

 New Mexico. From this valley he brought back a collection of more 

 than 800 specimens, including 250 pieces of painted pottery which, to- 

 gether with specimens brought back last year, open up a new culture 

 area, the character of which was practically unknown before. 



Dr. MicHELSON gave an account of his researches among New Eng- 

 land Indians now in Wisconsin. There are 600 Stockbridges adjoin- 

 ing the Menominee reservation, for the most part showing mixture of 

 white or negro blood. Perhaps a dozen of these know genuine Stock- 

 bridge words. One old man could dictate texts. The material ob- 

 tained showed that Stockbridge belongs to the Pequot-Mohegan and 

 Natick division of Central Algonquian dialects, sharing one or two points 

 with Delaware-Munsee. Their ethnology is forgotten. Among the 

 250 or more Brothertowns near Lake Winnebago, not one was found 

 who could remember a word of his own language. No full bloods were 

 found. 



Mr. Hewitt reported concerning his trip last December to Canada 

 on which only one survivor was found who preserved any knowledge 

 of the Nanticoke dialect, a woman taken from the eastern shore of 

 Chesapeake Bay. A particular investigation was liiade of the purpose 

 and part of song in the ceremonial of an Iroquois lodge. 



Daniel Folkmar, Secretary. 



