THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



which the monks of the middle ages in Europe decorated their 

 manuscripts and church walls. Mr. Thompson also displayed to 

 the Americanists by means of kinetoscopic pictures a Yucatan 

 sun-dance, and at the same time gave phonographic records of 

 the songs which were sung during each of the dances. 



A. P. Maudslay displayed forty magnificent enlargements 

 of photographs of Maya ruins and sculptures and a copy of his 

 monumental work upon these antiquities, a work which marks 

 an epoch in the history of the investigation of the culture of these 

 people. Miss Adela Breton exhibited her copies of the well-known 

 mural jjaintings of Chichen Itza. 



The discoveries which have been made by the explorations of 

 the Hyde Expedition under George H. Pepper of the Museum 

 were detailed to the Congress in an important communication 

 regarding the excavations made at Pueblo Bonito. Pueblo Bo- 

 nito is, perhaps, the most important ruined city of New Mexico, 

 and consists of an enormous building in the shape of a half- 

 ellipse with a circumference of 1300 feet, and contains more 

 than 640 rooms, in which between three and four thousand per- 

 sons could find accommodation. Among the thousands of ob- 

 jects which have been found there those are of especial interest 

 which have been discovered in the so-called Kiwa, the sacred 

 treasure-house of the different religious orders of the Pueblo. 

 Among these are countless remarkable ceremonial staffs and 

 sacred utensils, beautiful amulets and pendants from costly tur- 

 quoise, and bituminous coal, and a few painted terra-cotta jars, 

 which from their form seemed to be better adapted for drinking 

 vessels than for the carrying out of religious ritual. 



The present-day Indians were discussed in various relations. 

 Miss Alice Fletcher and Dr. George A. Dorsey read papers on the 

 ritualistic ceremonies of the Pawnee, from which it appeared 

 that the belief in the Great Spirit which is to be found in many 

 Indian tribes (the Wakan-tanka of the Sioux, the Manitou of the 

 OjiVjwa) is more highly developed among the Pawnee perhaps 

 than in any other Indian tribe in America. Tarawah, the Great 

 Spirit of the Pawnee, is not merely the master of life but also the 



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