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which practical efforts to keep alive and 

 to revive Indian art were discussed. Miss 

 de Cora described her efforts as art teacher 

 at the Indian school at Carlisle, while Miss 

 Curtis, after some general remarks on In- 

 dian music, rendered a number of Indian 

 songs which was a demonstration of the 

 beauties of Indian music. A number of 

 papers by Dr. Dorsey on the Pawnee were 

 read by title. In the afternoon a pleasant 

 reception was tendered to the members of 

 the congress by Lady Jette. 



Thursday morning opened with a discus- 

 sion by Dr. A. Hrdlicka, of Washington, 

 of those remains of man which are believed 

 to prove his antiquity on this continent. 

 On the whole, his conclusions were nega- 

 tive, in so far as the anatomical differences 

 between these remains and the present types 

 of Indians are concerned. Father Morice 

 read a paper on the position of woman 

 among the Tinne tribes, and Professor 

 Boas communicated a resume of ethnolog- 

 ical problems in Canada. A general re- 

 view of the principles of government among 

 the Indians of Canada was given by Dr. 

 Roy, of Levis. A number of papers on 

 the Algonquin tribes of Canada, contrib- 

 uted by a number of missionaries, were 

 read by title. On Thursday afternoon 

 Father Pacifique read a paper on the 

 Micmac, and a description of the religion 

 of the Assiniboine was contributed by Abbe 

 Gauvreau. Dr. Clark Wissler, of New 

 York, read a paper on the diffusion of cul- 

 ture on the Plains of North America. A 

 similar subject was treated in a paper by 

 Professor A. L. Kroeber, of San Francisco, 

 Cal., on the ceremonial organization of the 

 Plains Indians of North America, in which 

 a strong plea for a more detailed study of 

 this interesting subject was made. The 

 peculiar tendency to assimilate the culture 

 of neighboring tribes found among the 

 Tinne was discussed in a paper sent in by 

 Dr. P. E. Coddard, of Berkeley, Cal. An- 



other paper dealing with the question of 

 migration was that by Professor Cyrus 

 Thomas, who discussed the earliest probable 

 movement of tribes of our continent. On 

 Thursday evening Laval University re- 

 ceived the Americanists in the gardens of 

 the university. 



On Friday morning a series of illustrated 

 papers on Mexico and Central America 

 were read. The principal among these 

 were those contributed by Professor Seler, 

 who discussed parallels in Mayan manu- 

 scripts, the monuments of Huilocintla, and 

 who also contributed comparative studies 

 on the ruins of Yucatan. Dr. Seler also 

 presented brief abstracts of a paper by Dr. 

 K. Sapper, of Tiibingen, on the present dis- 

 tribution of the Choles and Chortles, and 

 of another by Dr. W. Lehmann, of Berlin, 

 on ancient Mexican mosaics in the Ethno- 

 graphical Museum of Berlin. Dr. Peabody 

 made some remarks on the manuscript con- 

 tributed by Dr. George F. Kunz, discussing 

 some features of the Bishop collection of 

 jade. The morning session ended with a 

 paper by Dr. Walter Hough, of Washing- 

 ton, on the ancient population of the Gila 

 Salt River. On Friday afternoon Abbe 

 Forbes presented an interesting study of 

 the proper names of the Iroquois, and Abbe 

 Rousseau discussed the question of Hoche- 

 laga. Dr. D. E. Dionne, of Quebec, spoke 

 on the translations of the Lord's Prayer 

 into Indian languages, and Professor Boas 

 gave a sketch of the grammar of the Ponca. 

 A number of important papers were pre- 

 sented by title, owing to the absence of the 

 authors. Among these, a description by 

 James Mooney of the Cheyenne Indians, 

 and a presentation of Cheyenne grammar 

 by Rev. R. Petter, deserve special mention. 

 In the evening the members of the congress 

 were conveyed by special train to Mont- 

 morency Falls, where the city of Quebec 

 tendered them a reception. 



The program of Saturday contained only 



