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these were selected, and among them were the 

 records of specimens obtained by Merriweather 

 Lewis and William Clark, " In their voyage and 

 journey of discovery up the Missouri to its source 

 and to the Pacific Ocean." The rather long list 

 of specimens noted are from the various tribes 

 visited by these early explorers. Among other 

 entries of note were specimens collected by Col- 

 onel Pike and other noted travelers. 



A general history of the museum with its vari- 

 ous homes and the final sale of the material 

 brings the paper to the final disposition and fate 

 of many of the specimens. All that are known to 

 be in existence are now in the Peabody Museum 

 of Harvard University at Cambridge, Mass. 



Calf Mountain Mound in Manitoba; Professor 



Henet Montgomeet. 



In September last (1909) Professor Mont- 

 gomery excavated an ancient artificial mound, 

 which for many years has been known to the resi- 

 dents of southern Manitoba as " Calf Mountain." 

 It is situated on a natural ridge in Manitou 

 County. This mound is about eighty feet in 

 diameter and ten feet in height. Openings had 

 been made in it by other persons some twenty 

 years ago. During the investigation of it about 

 thirty days' work in digging has been expended 

 upon this mound. Tlie excavations brought to 

 light nine burial places within a circular area of 

 thirty-five feet in diameter, and under conditions 

 which point to the mound's having been built in 

 portions at different times. The objects in the 

 burial places are in different conditions as to their 

 preservation, and in addition to this the cal- 

 careous layers which covered the burials were 

 found to overlap in such a manner that the more 

 recent layers extended above and over the older 

 ones without a break or interruption. 



The objects found consisted of bone armlets 

 with carving upon them, shell ornaments, copper 

 beads, a piece of tanned hide, birch bark baskets, 

 human skeletons and skulls of buffaloes. 



Huron Moose Hair Embroidery : Dr. F. G. Speck. 

 This paper deals objectively with the moose 

 hair appliqugs embroidery of the Huron Indians 

 now living at Lorette, P. Q., Canada. The pres- 

 ent known distribution of this type of decoration 

 was given, followed by remarks on its antiquity 

 and history. Details of the technique, of whicli 

 there are six varieties, were treated and illus- 

 trated from specimens collected by the author and 

 from those preserved in the collections of various 

 museums. A list of nineteen decorative figures 



shows the prominence of flower designs in this 

 art, since all but two of the figures represent 

 either partial or complete fiowers or trees. The 

 author described and interpreted the figures found 

 on various embroidered specimens. The paper 

 concluded with a discussion of both the technique 

 and the symbolism of Huron art, and, so far as 

 was possible, a comparison of the designs with 

 those of adjacent tribes. This paper, the ma- 

 terial for which was obtained during several 

 visits to Canada in 1908-9, is intended to appear, 

 illustrated with figures and plates, in a new vol- 

 ume of the Anthropological Publications of the 

 University of Pennsylvania Museum. 



Assiniboine Folk-lore: Dr. Robert H. Lowie. 



The Assiniboine, as a Dakota tribe living for a 

 long time in close contact with the Cree, might 

 naturally be sxpected to exliibit in their mythol- 

 ogy traces of both Siouan and Algonkian influ- 

 ence. As a matter of fact, the trickster-hero 

 cycle presents relatively few homologies with 

 Siouan mythology, but bears the impress of west- 

 ern Algonkian influence. On the other liand, the 

 miscellaneous folk-lore tales, while to a consid- 

 erable extent shared by the same tribes, do not 

 show the predominance of their influence, because 

 an approximately equal number has also been 

 recorded among the Omaha. From a psycholog- 

 ical point of view, it is interesting to note that 

 Inktonmi, who appears in the mythology of the 

 Dakota proper as a pure trickster type, assumes 

 among the Assiniboine some characteristics of 

 the culture-hero. The secondary association of 

 elsewhere distinct motives is also abundantly ex- 

 emplifled. 



What is Totemism? Mr. A. A. Goldenweiseb. 



An analysis of the various definitions of totem- 

 ism discloses a set of phenomena generally cov- 

 ered by that term. In examining the two typical 

 totemic regions — Australia and northern British 

 Columbia — we find them differing in all essential 

 points. If we then follow up the various social 

 and religious phenomena comprised in totemism, 

 in a number of cultural areas we find that each 

 one of these phenomena may and does occur inde- 

 pendently, often stands for different psycholog- 

 ical facts, and has an independent origin. 



In totemism then we must see an association of 

 these several factors. From this point of view 

 totemism becomes the product of a process of con- 

 vergent evolution, and we are confronted with a 

 number of historical and psychological problems 

 to be investigated. 



