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iiivestigation iu aboriginal technology is a sboit paper in Major Powell's 

 Second Aunual Report, on Navajo silversmiths, by Dr. Washington 

 Matthews. It is impossible to tell when this art of metal-working wa.s 

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

 related to the Tinn6 Indians of British America, a stock well £rd- 

 vauced in artistic conceijtions. Coming southward into contact with 

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

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given in the October Naturalist. 

 The following papers were read at the meeting : 



Uses of the emblematic mound.s. 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 friendship. Frank LaFlecho. 



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

 ship among the Oniahas. Alice C. Fletcher. 



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



The importance of the study of primitive architecture to 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. E. Hoy. 



Disputed points concerning Iroquois pronouns. Erminnio 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. 



Archiuologiial explorations by the Puabody Museum of American Archteology and Eth- 

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