KEPOKT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1909. 



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IIbdlicka, Ales — Coutimied. 



nee, O^Iala Sioux, Quinaielt, Hupa, 

 and Mohave, and to the Phcenix 

 Indian School. Besides this, tlie 

 article Includes data on tubercu- 

 losis gathered by the physicians 

 of other reservations. The study 

 has shown a great prevalence of 

 the disease among the Indians ex- 

 amined, and has made clear the 

 utmost need of practical stops be- 

 ing taken for curbing It. 



To tlie article is appended an 

 annotated bibliography. 



New examples of American In- 

 dian sivulls with low forehead. 



Proo. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 XXXV, No. 1041, Nov. n, 

 IIXJS, pp. 171-175, pi. 

 xxvm^ 1 fig. 



The paper gives account of two 

 skulls with low foreheads, re- 

 cently received by the National 

 Museum, and points out that the 

 feature may in different specimens 

 be due to different causes, and 

 have unlike significance. 



Physiological and medical ob- 



servations among the Indians of 

 southwestern United States and 

 northern Mexico. 



Bull. 3!,, Bur. Am. Eth., 

 1908, pp. i-lx, 1-460, pis. 

 i-xxviii^ figs. 1, 2. 

 The work gives observations, 

 principally of medical and physio- 

 logical nature, gathered by the 

 writer on his various expeditions 

 to the Indians in question. It 

 deals with vital statistics of the 

 Indians, their environment, food 

 and 'Irinks, habits, variou.s bodily 

 functions (from childhood to senil- 

 ity), social abnormalities, medical 

 observations, and series of meas- 

 urements with other determina- 

 tions of the Indian children, as 

 well as the adults. To it are ap- 

 pended a list of the native foods, 

 tables of detailed measurements 

 and observations, and an anno- 

 tated bibliography. 



Otis Tiifton Mason. 



Science (n. s.) xxviii. No. 

 726, Nov. 27, 1008, pp. 

 746-748. 



Obituary notice of Professor 

 Mason, including a brief sketch of 

 his life and scientific activities. 



IlRDLiCKA, Ales. Report on the skele- 

 tal remains (recovered from the 



Earth-Lodge Ruins in Eastern Ne- 



In-aska). 



Am. Anthropologist (n. s.) 



II, No. 1, pp. 79-84, 



Jan.-Mar., 1909. 



Included in the paper of Mr. 



Robert F. (iilder on Excavations 



of Earth-Lodge Ruins in Eastern 



Nebraska. (Ibid., p. 56 et seq.) 



This is a description of the 

 skeletal remains from Neln-aska 

 collected and donated to the 

 National Museum in 1908 by Mr. 

 Gilder. 



McGuiUE, Joseph D. Ethnological and 

 urcheological notes on Moosehead 

 Lake, Maine. 



Am. Anthropologist (n. s.), 

 X, No. 4, Oct.-Dec, 1908, 

 pp. 549-557, pis. xxxiir, 

 xxxiv. 

 The paper deals with the eth- 

 nology of the region about Moose- 

 head Lake, which was the terri- 

 tory of the AbnakI, and describes 

 various classes of artificially 

 worked stone found on the beach 

 exposed during low water. The 

 specimens are of rhyolite and 

 comprise the less familiar partly 

 worked or rejected types, and 

 spearpolnts, arrowpoints, knives, 

 scrapers, and awls. 



Mason, Otis Tufton. Anyam Gila 

 (Mad weave) ; A Malaysian type of 

 basketwork. 



Proc. U. S. yat. Mas., 



XXXVI, No. 1672, May 



6, 1909, pp. 385-390, 



figs. 1-11. 



The paper treats of a type of 



basket weaving in which three 



sets of pandanus strips, forming 



rhombs, are used. This weave is 



only found in Malaysia. 



A'ocabulary of Malaysian bask- 

 etwork : A study in the W. L. Abbott 

 collections. 



Proc. U. S. yut. Mus., 

 XXXV, No. 1631, Nov. 7, 

 1908, pp. 1-51, pis. I- 

 xviii, figs. 1-41. 

 The paper is a detailed study of 

 the basketry in the Abbott collec- 

 tion and was prepared in order to 

 settle upon a definite nomenclature 

 for the entire Malay region, in- 

 cluding the Philippine Islands. 

 The materials which occur in 



