LVIII REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



of Indians encountered on the way. With the publication of 

 the Spanish text, however, it is believed that more light on these 

 questions will now be cast. 



So far as results beneficial to Coronado, to his loyal follow- 

 ers, or to New Spain were concerned, this celebrated expedition 

 was, in the words of Mr Winship, "a total, dismal, ruinous fail- 

 ure." But to the ethnologist and the historian it forms the 

 besmmino- f known events in the vast southwest, and furnishes 

 information of the aborigines of that section as they existed 

 over three and a half centuries ago that otherwise could never 

 have been known. 



In addition to the Castaneda narrative, Mr Winship presents 

 translations of other accounts of the Coronado expedition and 

 its achievements. These include the letters of the viceroy Men- 

 doza and of Coronado to the King, one of those of the latter 

 being written from Zuni; the Traslado cle las Nuevas, the Rela- 

 tion del Suceso, the Relation Postrera de Sivola, the narrative of 

 Jaramillo, one of Coronado's captains; the report by Alva- 

 rado of his journey from Cibola to Tiguex and the buffalo 

 plains, and the testimony concerning those who went on the 

 expedition. 



The memoir is made more intelligible by a series of ancient 

 maps reproduced from their originals, showing the geographic 

 knowledge of the times, particularly after the important addi- 

 tions growing out of Coronado's work; it is also enriched by 

 a number of illustrations of the new country, strange people, 

 and novel structures which greeted the eyes of Coronado and 

 his men and shaped their conceptions. These illustrations, 

 and a number of the ethnologic notes by which the scientific 

 value of the document is enhanced, were contributed by Mr 

 F. W. Hodge. 



THE GHOST-DANCE RELIGION 



The remarkable religious fantasy which overspread western 

 United States during the years 1889-92, and the lamentable 

 Sioux outbreak connected with it, were so recent and so widely 

 heralded by the press as to require no introduction to the read- 

 ing public. Fortunately a collaborator of the Bureau of Eth- 



