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there is a great infusion of Mexican Indian blood and the textiles 

 are therefore extremely interesting. Up to the present time 

 very little has been known concerning their blankets, and the 

 question of native Indian influence upon their products as well as 

 the counter influence, presents a question well worthy of study. 

 The bearing of this intrusion upon the Southwestern textiles is 

 sure to form an interesting chapter in the history of this primi- 

 tive industry. 



The memoir on "The Material Life of the Chukchee, " by 

 Mr. Waldemar Bogoras, has been completed. It was presented 

 at the International Congress of Americanists held in Stuttgart, 

 in August. 



Dr. Clark Wissler, of the Department of Ethnology, has 

 been pursuing his researches among the Black Foot Indians of 

 Montana and the Canadian side of the border. He reports 

 gratifying success in his investigations of the religious rituals of 

 the Black Foot and has shipped to the Museum extensive col- 

 lections illustrating their ceremonies. The Royal Ethnographi- 

 cal Museum in Berlin has made an arrangement by which Dr. 

 Wissler has collected material for them as well as for this Museum. 



Mr. Frank G. Speck, of Columbia University, was in the 

 Indian Territory during July and August collecting for the 

 Museum material and linguistic information from the Uchee (a 

 little-known tribe formerly resident in South Carolina) , the stock 

 affiliations of which have long been a puzzle to ethnologists. 

 He reports gratifying progress. 



Dr. Berthold Laufer, who has been pursuing his researches 

 in China for the past three years in the interests of the East 

 Asiatic Committee, has reached Germany on his return journey 

 and is expected to arrive in New York earh' in October to take 

 charge of the installation of the collection made by him for the 

 Museum, as well as to begin his lectures at Columbia University. 



Honorable Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of the Interior, 

 Philippine Insular Government, has presented to the Museum a 



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