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graphs upon special tribes are of great value to the ethnographer, and 

 it is niucli to be desired that their general plan of arrangement should 

 be as uniform as possible. 



The second half of this volume is devoted to an elaborate historico- 

 ethnological paper by G. P. Winship on "The Coronado Expedition of 

 1540-42." The narrative of this, together with the earlier ex])editions 

 of Francisco Vasquez Coronado, forms a chapter in the history of the 

 Spanish conquest of America. The Spanish text of Castafieda's 

 narrative is given in full with a translation, and translations of several 

 other accounts, communicated by other writers in the form of letters 

 to various people, are also given. The reproductions of a number of 

 important sixteenth century maps add much interest to the historical 

 information conveyed in these narratives, while the excellent photo- 

 graplisof the modern Pueblo Indians, their dwellings and occupations, 

 serve admiralily to illustrate the incidental passages which have 

 reference to the manners and customs of the native inhabitants of 

 New Mexico in the sixteenth century. The early ethnographic 

 observations are of value as giving an indication of the amount of 

 change which the native culture has undergone since the Spanish 

 invasion of the country. 



Part II. of the same report is a volume devoted to a very ex- 

 haustive paper upon the " Ghost-Dance Keligion and the Sioux 

 Outbreak of 1890," by James Mooney, a writer e'minently qualified, 

 by his long personal acquaintance with the customs and ritual of the 

 Indian tribes, to act as chronicler of the curious circumstances which 

 for a while created so much stir and trouble but a few years back. 

 Mr Mooney has mapped out the area of the ghost-dance, showing a 

 wide distribution in the Central and Western States of North America. 

 He treats his subject historically, dealing with the relations between 

 the Indians and the Whites, and the causes of the various outbreaks 

 of the former in their endeavour to throw off the yoke of the latter. 

 Most, if not all, of the Indian tribes have held belief in the coming of 

 a Messiah or Deliverer who will restore them to their original happy 

 state, and numerous prophets have arisen who have taught the religious 

 dances, which may collectively be classed under the term Ghost- 

 Dance, and which are elaborately symbolic, relating to the doctrine 

 of the future blissful state. The history and acts of the celebrated 

 ' Messiah ' Vovoka are gone into in detail, together with the causes 

 of the recent Sioux outbreak. A mass of material of both historical 

 and ethnological interest is brought together in the paper. The indi- 

 vidual campaigns are described and illustrated by maps. Of special 

 interest to ethnographers is the minute description of the ceremonials 

 of the ghost-dance, and the extensive collection of myth-songs recorded. 



The Fifteenth Eeport (1893-4) contains a paper by W. H, Holmes 

 on " Stone Implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake Tidewater Pro- 

 vince," in which the author makes a detailed and plain statement of 

 his views as to the nature of the ' quarry-workshops ' and their pro- 

 ducts, reasserting his belief in the necessity of attributing them to the 

 agency of the historic Algonquian Indian instead of referring them to 

 a remote period and a different culture. Much, of course, is repeated 

 from his former papers on the subject, but so plain and straight- 

 forward a statement of his views, which are very convincing, must 



