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moderately advanced anterior to the shock of contact with 

 white men. Somewhat further advanced in certain respects 

 must have been the prehistoric Hopi of Sikyatki whose arti- 

 facts were exhumed in such abundance by Dr Fewkes, a peo- 

 ple at least culturally related to the peculiarly advanced tribes 

 of ]\Iexico whose structiu'es and institutions so impressed the 

 conquistadores; they were practically sedentary like their 

 descendants in Tusayan today and essentially agricultural 

 through aid of irrigation, were skilled artificers in certain lines, 

 and were organized on a social and hducial plan of consider- 

 able complexity and refinement. 



In their relation to the categories of human activities the 

 range of the papers is broad. The first is general, touching 

 on the somatology and incidentally on the psychology of the 

 Seri Indians, and traversing the entire series of their activities 

 so far as these are known ; the second is devoted especially to 

 activital products of the Kiowa Indians connected equally with 

 arts of pleasure and arts of expression, but the description and 

 discussion touch and fairly cover the entire series of activities; 

 so, too, the third i)aper pertains primarily to a special line of 

 industrial activity, yet the consideration extends to beliefs, 

 institutions, form of expression, and even to esthetic concepts 

 and products ; while the fourth paper deals with esthetic prod- 

 ucts in their relations to a considerable range of activities. 

 Collectively the papers contribute especially to esthetology 

 and technology, in somewhat less degree to sophiology and 

 sociology, and in some measure to philology. 



The Seri Indians 



The aboriginal tribe known as Seri, Seris, Sseris, Ceris, or 

 Ceres, is of interest in many ways. Notably exclusive and 

 intolerant of aliens, the tribesmen retain priscan characteris- 

 tics to an exceptional degree, and their activities accordingly 

 reflect environment with exceptional closeness. Thus the study 

 of the tribe materially extends the developmental range cov- 

 ered by the researches of the Bureau, and correspondingly 

 enlarges and strengthens the conceptions of human develop- 

 ment based on the study of the native American tribes. 



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