102 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



L'arl .".. Studies of Mexican and Central American plants. No. 5. By .]. X. 

 Rose. pp. i viii. 79-132, ix-x, pis. xvi-xliii, tigs. l-<j. 



Part I. The Leguminosje <>l Porto Rico. By J. Perkins, pp. i-vi, 183-220, 



CLASSIFIED LIST OF I'AI'I 1,'s BASED WHOLLY OH IN PART ON THE NATIONAL 



COLLEt 1 1< iNS. 



MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION. 



Ratlitsun. Richard. Report upon the Rathbun, Richard. Report upon the 

 condition and progress of the I T . S. condition and progress of the U. S. 



National Museum during the year ' National Museum during the rear 



ending .luiic 80, 1905. 



Rep. Smilllsi illinn I lis!. i /". ,V. 



\ at. 1/ ns. i . am i t<m i . pp. i v. 

 i 1 ::•_'. 



ending .Tunc .".it. 190(i. 



Rep. Smithsonian Ins/. (U. S. 

 \ul. Mux. i . /.'«»;. pp. i iii. 1 

 120. 



ETHNOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Hewett, Ijh.ai; I.. Antiquities of the Holmes, William II. -Continued. 

 Jeniez I'lateau. New Mexico. 



Hull. \ \ \ li , Bur. Am. Eth.. 

 looo, pp. 1 ">, pis. i w 1 1. fig; 

 1 :;i. 



This work is till 1 lir 

 tended I" embody brief descriptions of 

 I he antiquities of Hie southwest by 

 culture areas. The section devoted 

 to minor antiquities is accompanied b,t 

 five plates representing Museum 

 mens. 



Holmes. William II. Decorative an 

 of the aborigines of Northern Amor 



I CM. 



\nlli, oiwloyiriii I'ii/ii is written In 

 honor of Fran.: lions, New 

 York, ii. Stecherl & Co., Aim. 

 0, 1000, pp. 170 1SS. 

 The ornamental art of the aborigi- 

 nes has recently received much dc- 

 served attention on the part of eth- 

 nologists, and the present paper is a 

 brief review of the subject, referring 

 especially to the origin, significance, 

 and morphology of ornament as em 

 bodied in sculpt nrc, plastic art, en- 

 graving, painting, textiles, inlaying, 

 and other less important branches of 

 art. Especial attention is given to the 

 introduction of life forms into the 

 decorations, the relation of these to 

 I he geometric forms, and the many 

 Strang" modifications that result from 

 the association. 



On the origin of the cross 



symbol. 



\ hi. An tiqiinrian due, win. 

 11. s.. I't. 1, Oct. - I. 1000, pp. 

 OS 105, figs. I ii. 



The origin of the cross as a symbol 

 iced bark to very early times and 



- iim source, not , how ever, wit 1. 



.i single people, but anion-' many peo 

 pies. Such common source is to be 

 sought neither in the picturing of 

 tiat urn! forms in pietographj . nor in 

 the designs of the decorator, as in 

 such use the figures employed have 

 usually no deep significance or, at 

 most, no widespread application, but 

 in the use of symbols embodying re 

 ligious concepts which are deeply im- 

 pressed upon the primitive mind in 

 general. Such a source is recognized 

 in i he separation of the primitive 

 world or cosmos into four regions and 

 the t ransl'ei lonee of the sacred char 

 acter of the beings occupying these 

 regions to the device which, in course 

 of common usage, came to represent 

 them. 



Aboriginal shell heaps of the 

 Middle Atlantic tidewater region. 



I in. InthropoloijM, n. s., ix. No. 



1, January-March, 1907, pp. 



113 12S, ids. s-0. tigs. 8-20. 

 This paper includes a summary of 

 shell-heap phenomena in general, and 

 more especially of such of these re- 

 mains as are attributed to the known 

 tribes of the Middle Atlantic tide 

 water region. The greal midden de 

 posil at Lopes Creek. Maryland, which 

 is taken as a type, is composed of 

 oyster shells and is one of the most 

 extensive known. The area covered is 

 upwards of 30 acres, and the depth 

 near the landing before removal of 

 large portions for fertilizing purposes 

 was about l'o feet. The tribes con- 

 cerned in the accumulation of these 

 depesits can not be identified, but they 

 are doubtless represented by the Pow- 

 halans or neighboring tribes on the 

 eastern side of t he Potomac. 



