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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 481. 



The Torture Incident of the Cheyenne Sim- 

 Dance of 1903: George A. Dorset. 

 This paper was in the form of a concise 

 account of the dance, the torture which 

 caused the trouble and the charges made 

 by the agents. 



John H. Seager and Mr. "White sent in- 

 dividual reports to the Commissioner of 

 Indian Affairs in Washington. They 

 charged that Dorsey and Mooney had paid 

 fifteen dollars to an Indian to undergo 

 torture. Seager had previously charged 

 his superior officer with having revived the 

 sun-dance and that it cost six beeves to 

 renew it. This charge was made before 

 the Mohonk conference. It was never in- 

 vestigated. Dorsey demanded that the 

 Indian Department investigate the charges 

 on both sides. He stated that no money 

 was paid for the dance that he saw, and 

 that practically no torture was undergone. 



No session was held in the afternoon. 

 The section was invited by the local com- 

 mittee to visit the Cahokia Mound and the 

 surrounding mound groups, and a number 

 of the members took advantage of the op- 

 portunity to visit this wonderful earth- 

 work. 



THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31. 



The History of an Arickaree War Shield: 



George A. Dorset. 



The history of this particular shield was 

 traced from the time that the owner died. 

 The shield was stolen by a member of the 

 tribe. It had been willed to the favorite 

 son of the deceased. The son went to his 

 father's grave and saw a vision. In it a 

 bear appeared, and there were various 

 other phenomena such as the presence of 

 lightning. He found the man who had 

 stolen the shield and regained the inner 

 part of the frame. The cover had been 

 thrown away. He painted the shield, lasing 

 as decorations the symbols seen while 



watching his father's grave. Thus he ob- 

 tained good medicine. 



Presentation of Ceremonial Flint, and 

 Facts Relative to its Discovery: H. M. 

 Whelpley. 

 Discussion by George Grant MacCurdy 



and R. H. Harper. 



Archeology of the Afton Sulphur Springs, 

 Indian Territory: R. H. Harper. 

 In this contribution the preliminary 

 work in the Sulphur Springs was de- 

 scribed, leading up to the final cleaning 

 out of this interesting ceremonial spring 

 which contained the deposit of stone imple- 

 ments. He mentioned the fact that the 

 oldest Indians of the region were inter- 

 viewed and all seemed to agree that it was 

 a place of sacrifice. The absence of arrow 

 points within a radius of several miles 

 would tend to show that hunting was not 

 allowed near the spring. Outside of this 

 area a great many stone implements are 

 found. 



The Efficiency of Bone and Antler Arrow 

 Points as shown by Fractured Human 

 Bones from Staten Island, New York: 

 George H. Pepper. 



The Indians of Staten Island were of 

 Algonkin stock and members of the Mo- 

 liegan tribe. Their village sites and imple- 

 ments have always been in evidence, but 

 no burial places of importance were noted 

 until 1858. 



The first exploration work was carried 

 on by Mr. Pepper in 1894, followed by 

 explorations for the American Museixm of 

 Natural History of New York City the fol- 

 lowing j^ear, the latter work being lender 

 the direction of Professor Marshall H. 

 Saville. The scene of these operations was 

 a sandy bluff overlooking Raritan Bay in 

 the village of Tottenville. 



Many human skeletons were found, the 

 most interesting being three adults, among 



