VI CONTENTS. 



ACCOMPANYING PAPERS. 



NOTES ON CERTAIN MAYA AND MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS, BY CYRDS THOMAS. 



Page. 



Tableau tics Bacab - 7 



Plate 43 of the Borgian Codex 23 



Plate 41 of the Fejervary Codex 31 



Symbols of the cardinal points 36 



ON MASKS, LABRETS, AND CERTAIN ABORIGINAL CUSTOMS, BY WILLIAM H. DALL. 



Prefatory remarks 73 



The evolution of masks 74 



Labretifery 77 



Classification of masks 93 



On the practice of preserving the whole or part of the human head 94 



On the distribution of masks 98 



Masks of the South Sea 98 



Masks of Peru 103 



Masks of Central America and Mexico 104 



Masks of New .Mexico and Arizona 105 



Masks of Northwest American Indians 106 



Tlinkit and Haida masks 110 



Masks of the Innuit, north to the Arctic Ocean 121 



Innuit of Prince William Sound 124 



Innuit of Kadiak Island 128 



Innuit of Kuskokwim River 129 



Innuit of Norton Sound and the Yukon Delta 132 



Innuit of Bering Strait 135 



Innuit of Point Barrow, Arctic Ocean 136 



Masks of the UnungQn or Aleuts 137 



Masks of the Iroquois (supplemental) 144 



Summary and speculations 146 



Plates and explanations 153 



OMAHA SOCIOLOGY, BY J. OWEN DORSEY. 



Chapter I. — Introduction 211 



Early migrations of the Cfegiha tribes 211 



Subsequent migrations of the Omahas 213 



Present state of the Omahas : 214 



Chapter II.— The State 215 



Differentiation of organs in the State 215 



State classes 216 



Corporations 216 



Chapter III. — The Gentile systoin 219 



Tribal circles 219 



The Omaha tribal circle 219 



The sacred tents 221 



The sacred pipes 221 



Law of membership 225 



The Weji n cte or Elk gens 225 



The Inke-sabG, or Black shoulder gens 228 



The Hanga gens 233 



The ffatadagens 236 



The }[a n ze gens 241 



The Ma n ^iuka-gaxe gens 242 



The xe-sinde gens 244 



The .La-da or Deer-head gens 245 



