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of the decoration of ancient Hopi earthenware. The 
great multiplicity of life designs appearing on the pot- 
tery of ancient Sikyatki is treated in the paper, in 
which modifications in decorative devices derived from 
feathers, birds and other animals, and conventional fig- 
ures are likewise discussed. One object of Doctor 
Fewkes’s treatise is to meet a growing desire of those 
interested in primitive symbolism, and another is to de- 
fine the peculiarities of one ceramic area of the Pueblos 
as a basis for comparison with others, thus facilitating 
the study of Pueblo culture origins and prehistoric migra- 
tion routes. 
As the construction of the Panama Canal has tended 
to stimulate an interest in aboriginal remains in the 
West Indies, and as many archeological specimens differ- 
ing from those of ‘the Antilles previously known are now 
being brought to light, the time for a scientific study of 
them, as well as of the aboriginal sites of the West Indies, 
has arrived. Much of the interest recently manifested 
in early Indian life in the West Indies may be ascribed 
to Doctor Fewkes’s memoir on ‘‘ The Aborigines of Porto 
Rico and Neighboring Islands,’’ which appears in the 
Twenty-fifth Annual Report. Since the publication of 
this paper the new material has become so abundant that 
plans have been made for Doctor Fewkes to resume. his 
study of West Indian archeology. The most note- 
worthy collection of aboriginal objects from this area in 
recent years is that of George G. Heye, Esq., of New 
York, who courteously has placed his material at the dis- 
posal of the bureau as an aid to these investigations. 
This collection has been studied by Doctor Fewkes, and 
the most important objects contained therein are now be- 
ing drawn for illustrative purposes. 
Doctor Fewkes’s researches thus far indicate that the so- 
called Tainan culture of Porto Rico and Santo Domingo 
was represented in the Lesser Antilles by an agricultural 
people, probably Arawak, who were conquered and ab- 
sorbed by themarauding Carib. Study of the collections be- 
