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investigation in aboriginal technology is a short i)aper in Major Powell's 

 Second Annual Eeport, on Navajo silversmiths, by Dr. Washington 

 Matthews. It is impossible to tell when this art of metal working was 

 introduced among the Navajos. It is well known that the Navajos are 

 related to the Tinn^ Indians of British America, a stock well ad- 

 vanced in artistic conceptions. Coming southward into contact with 

 ]>eople acquainted with primitive metallurgy, this natural bent would 

 make it easy for them to practice this art. Their tools and methods are 

 of the most primitive character, and yet some of the works which they 

 produce are of great beauty. 



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A. C.leP. — S. M. — Essai de grammaire de la langue de Viti, d'apr^s lea maiinscrifs 



des Missionnaires Maristes coordonu^s. Paris. 288 pp. 8vo. 

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Aug., 1883). Rennes. Br. iu-8vo. 

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Congres international des Am^ricanistes. ^openhague, 1883. (Supplement du 



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Paris, VII, 484-490. 

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 American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. Edited by Rev. Stephen D. Peet. Vol. 



VI. Published bi-monthly. Chicago. 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Thirty-third meeting, Phila., 



Sept. 4-11, inclusive. 



The address of Professor E. S. Morse, as vice-president of Section H of the Ameri- 

 can Association, was upon Man in the Tertiaries, the full text of which w.as 



given in the October Naturalist. 

 The following papers were read at the meeting : 



Uses of the emblematic mounds. Stephen D. Peet. 



The lineal measures of the semi-civilized nations. D. G. Brinton. 



Description of the skeletons and skulls found in the large mound of the Turner group. 

 MissC. A.Studley. 



The sacred pipes of fjiendship. Frank LaFleche. 



Some observations upon the usage, symbolism, and influence of the sacred pipes of fellovr- 

 ship among the Omahas. Alice C. Fletcher. 



Notes upon some quartz objects from Central Minnesota. Miss F. E. Babbitt. 



The importance of the study of primitive architecture lo an understanding of the pre- 

 historic age in America. Stephen D. Peet. 



Local weather lore. Amos W. Butler. 



Some characteristics of the Indian earth and shell mounds on the Atlantic coast of Florida. 

 Andrew E. Douglass. 



The manner in which Indians made their stone implements. P. K. Hoy. 



Disputed points concerning Iroquois pronouns. Erminnie A. Smith. 



The use of the plow in Japan. Edward S. Morse. 



The sacrificial stone of San Juan Teotihuacan. A. W. Butler. 



Mythology of the Wintuns. J. W. Powell. 



Archaeological explorations by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Eth- 

 nology, communicated at the request of the trustees of the museum. F. W. Putnau 



