ANTHROPOLOGY. 670 



The American Autifiuarian continues to be tlie only periodical in 

 America devoted entirely to a department of anthropology. 



The Sixteenth and Seventeentli Annual Reports 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 in Coahuila, Mexico, by C. A. Studley. 



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



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



Ceremony of the- Four Winds, by 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 arcli?eological research in America. 



Professor Putnam gives a reaume of su(;cessful exi)lorations in the 

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

 explorations at Madisonville, Ohio, especially, were of the mostthorough 

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

 archteology. 



Mr. Carr takes the ground tbat 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 bufialo ; tlie Santee cere- 

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

 winds; and the Ogallala-Sioux custom of keeping a ghost lodge for 

 deceased kinsfolk. 



By far the most important things found by Professor Putnam, in 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<?sire Charnay published in a quarto volume the results of his 

 explorations under the patronage of Pierre Lorillard. 



