1016 REPORT— 1898. 



Their dwellings are of stone and timber, with a well-built storehouse, but in 

 remote districts cave shelters are in use. 



The author further described the religious beliefs and social customs of the 

 tribes, and exhibited skulls from a burial cave near the Pluajochic River. 



3. On some Roch-Draiviiigs from British Columbia. By C. Hill-Tout. 



4. On the Myths and Customs of the Musquahie Indians. 

 By Mary A. Owen. 



The author discussed the alleged origin and migrations of Musqualdes (Red- 

 earth Men) ; the organisation of their tribe, clans, and families ; their courtship 

 and marriage ; the social position of the son and the daughter ; their training, ideas 

 of ownership, and other rights ; initiations and ceremonials, secret societies, 

 majric, &c. 



5. Report on the Ethnological Survey of Canada. — See Reports, p. 696. 



MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 

 1. On a Buddhist Image found in an Irish Bog. By Miss A. G. Weld. 



This image is of an early Cinghalese type, and was found in 1886 by a labourer 

 at some depth in a bog on the estate of Baltrasna, 15 miles from Kells. It repre- 

 sents the Buddha erect, in the ' preaching ' or ' benedictory ' attitude. 



2. The Hill Tribes of the Central Indian Hills — their Ethnology, Customs, 

 and Sociology. By William Crooke, B.A., late Bengal Civil Service, 

 Director Ethnographical Survey, North- Western Provinces and Oudh. 



The author discusses — 



(a) The ethnological affinities of the Dravidian races, with (1) races exterior 

 to India; (2) the existing population of Northern India. 



(6) The evidence from anthropometry collected by Mr. Risley, and by the 

 author in his book lately published on ' The Tribes and Castes of the North- 

 western Provinces and Oudh.' 



(c) The current theories of the Aryan influence on the existing races ; which 

 seems to have been more of a social than of an ethnical character. The paper 

 attempts to controvert the belief that the existing Dravidian tribes are reUcs of 

 a race di-iven into the hill tract by the advancing Aryan invaders. 



{d) The author then considers from a special personal study of these races, the 

 evidence for — (1) the matriarchate and descent through the female ; (2) influence 

 of totemism on marriage; (3) group marriage; (4) tree marriage ; (5) rules of 

 exogamy ; (6) burial rites and the customs of burial in the earth, water burial, 

 cremation. 



(e) The present social condition and industries of these races are described. 



3. Interim Report on the Anthropology and Natural History of the 

 Torres Straits. — See Reports, p. 688. 



