ANTHROl^OLOGY. C70 



The American Aiitiqmiriaii continues to be tlie only periodical in 

 America devoted entirely to a department of antbro[)ology. 



The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Annual Eeports of the Trustees of the 

 Peabody Museum, forming ¥os. 3 and 4 of Vol. Ill, contain the fol- 

 lowing anthropological papers : 



Sixteenth report of the curator. 



List of additions to the museum and library. 



Social and political position of women among the Huron-Iroquois 

 tribes, by Lucien Carr, assistant curator. 



Human remains from caves iu Coahuila, Mexico, by C. A. Studley. 



The White Buffalo Festival of the Uncpapaa. by Alice C. Fletcher. 



The Elk Mystery of the Ogallala, by Alice C. Fletcher. 



Ceremony of the Four Winds, bj' the Sanlee Sioux, by Alice C. 

 Fletcher. 



The Shadow or Ghost Lodge, an Ogallala ceremony, by Alice C. 

 Fletcher. 



The Pipe Dance of the Omahas, by Alice C. Fletcher. 

 Seventeenth report of the curator, with lists of additions. 



Report on Meteoric Iron from Mounds, by R. P. Kennicott, Ph. D. 



The curator's report gives a flattering account of the work of the mu- 

 seum in 1884. In addition to the usual appropriation the sum of $3,350 

 was subscribed for archseological research in America. 



Professor Putnam gives a resume of successful explorations in the 

 shell-heaps of Maine and iu the mounds of Tennessee and Ohio. The 

 explorations at Madison ville, Ohio, especially, were of the most thorough 

 character, and the results were in many respects new to American 

 archaeology. 



Mr. Carr takes the ground that woman among the Huron-Iroquois 

 Indians was not the drudge she is commonly represented to be, but 

 had only her fair share of labor, and great influence in the councils of 

 the tribe. 



Miss Studley gives an account of the osteological collections from four 

 caves in the limestone formation in the State of Coahuila, Mexico, col- 

 lected in 1880 by Dr. Edward Palmer. 



Miss Fletcher describes the festival given to the man who among the 

 Uncpapas has the good fortune to kill a white buffalo ; the Santee cere- 

 mony of seeking the black stone or the raven ; symbols of the four 

 winds; and the OgallalaSioux custom of keeping a ghost lodge for 

 deceased kinsfolk. 



By far the most important things found by Professor Putnam, iu the 

 altar of the Turner mound, were several pieces of meteoric iron and 

 ornaments made of this metal. Dr. Kennicott gives an analysis of this 

 iron at the close of the report. 



M. D^sir^. Charnay published in a quarto volume the results of his 

 explorations under the patronage of Pierre Lorillard. 



