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the past, it was a revelation to Airs. Stevenson when she was in- 

 formed that this rite was observed by tlie 'I'ewa at the present time ; 

 and, while it is said to exist only in two of the villa.^es, she has reason 

 to believe that they are not exceptions. In one village the subject is 

 said to be the youngest female infant ; in the other village an adult 

 woman is reported to be sacrificed, a woman without husband or 

 children being selected whenever possible. The sacrificial ceremonies 

 occur in the kiva. The subjects are drugged with Datura nictcloidcs 

 until life is supposed to be extinct. At the proper time the body is 

 placed upon a sand painting on the floor before the table altar and the 

 ceremony proceeds amid incantations and strange ])erformances. 



Fig. 77. — Lucindra Jackson, Yonkalla tril)e, Kaki- 

 puya family. Photograph from Frachtenlierg. 



The infant is nude, and the woman is but scantily clad. After the 

 flesh has decom])osed and nothing but the bones remain the skeleton 

 is dei)0sited, with offerings, beneath the floor of an adjoining room of 

 the kiva. The entire ceremony is performed with the greatest solem- 

 nity. 



NOTES ON THE ALSEA AND KALAPUYAN INDIANS 

 The opening of the year found Dr. T.eo J. I'rachtenberg in Siletz. 

 Oregon, completing the linguistic and ethnological studies that were 

 commenced in 1910 among the Alsea Indians. In addition to im- 



