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Missouri village tribes are available, they seem to 

 place them as intermediate between the Pawnee 

 and the Blaokfoot. When we consider the distri- 

 bution of these traits in the Plains area it ap- 

 pears that rituals of the Pawnee- Arikara-Blackfoot 

 type are but weakly developed in neighboring 

 tribes, though strongest among the Siouan neigh- 

 bors of the Pawnee. Also ritualism is most in- 

 tense among the agricultural tribes and weakest 

 among those strictly non-agricultural. The sug- 

 gestion is, therefore, that the Pawnee are the ap- 

 proximate center for the dispersion of this trait in 

 the Plains. 



The second peint is a comparison of Pawnee 

 ritualism with tribes in other parts of the conti- 

 nent. We find certain parallels to Pueblo rituals 

 .as associated with maize culture and a specific 

 Mexican parallel in the human sacrifice. 



A Manuscript iy Basmiis Basic: The Aleutian 

 Language Compared with the Greenlandic: Wil- 

 liam Thalbitzer. 



The famous Danish linguist, E. K. Eask, who in 

 1818-19 stayed at Saint Petersburg on his journey 

 to India, met there two natives of the Aleutian 

 Islands, who had accompanied the expedition of 

 Otto V. Kotzebue on his return from Bering 

 Straits. Eask took the opportunity of recording 

 some specimens of the Aleut language, which he 

 spelled in his usual way and accompanied with a 

 Danish translation, with some additional compara- 

 tive remarks on the Aleut and Greenland lan- 

 guages. Thus Eask was the first to discover some 

 points of resemblance in the grammar and vocab- 

 ulary of these languages. This manuscript, which 

 contains about 200 Aleut words, was never pub- 

 lished, however, and remained unknown to later 

 explorers of the Aleutians. After the death of 

 Eask, in 1832, the manuscript was deposited in 

 the Eoyal Library at Copenhagen. It will now 

 be submitted for publication in the Proceedings 

 of the Congress, translated into English, being 

 probably the earliest modern contribution to 

 American linguistics made by one of the founders 

 of the present comparative science of languages. 



PAPERS PRESENTED FOR WHICH NO ABSTRACT VTAS 

 PROCIIRED 



(1) "The Oldest Known Illustrations of South 

 American Indians"; (2) "Present State of our 

 Knowledge of the South American Indians; with 

 a Linguistic Map, ' ' by Eudolph Sehuller. 



(1) "Origin of the Indians of Central and 



South America"; (2) "Lexicology of the Names 

 of the Indian God," by J. A. Caparo. 



(1) "An Inea Eoad and Several Hitherto Tin- 

 described Euins in the Urubamba Valley, Peru"; 



(2) "Some Extraordinary Trepanned Skulls 

 Pound this Year in the Urubamba Valley, Peru"; 



(3) "The Inca Peoples and their Culture," by 

 Hiram Bingham. 



"Notes on the Folklore of the Peruvian In- 

 dians," by F. A. Pezet. 



' ' The Domain of the Aztecs, " by A. M. Tozzer. 



(1) "The So-called Pelike Type of North Ar- 

 gentina Pottery"; (2) "Scarifiers of Northwest 

 Argentina," by Juan B. Ambrosetti. 



"Cayuga Ownership of New York Land," by 

 Grace E. Taft. 



"Eye and Hair Color in Children of Old Amer- 

 icans," by Beatrice L. Stevenson. 



"New Methods in Ethnographic Photography," 

 by Frederick I. Monsen. 



"What the United States has done for Anthro- 

 pology, " by E. W. Hodge. 



(1) "The Pre-Columbian Indians of the Eastern 

 Extremity of Cuba"; (2) "Discovery of the first 

 Indian Sepulture of Cuba," by Louis Montana. 



"Observations on Some Shell Mounds on the 

 East Coast of Florida, ' ' by Amos W. Butler. 



"The Indians and their Culture as Described in 

 the Swedish and Dutch Eecords of 1614 to 1664," 

 by Amandus Johnson. 



(1) "The Diffusion of Culture, a Critique"; 

 (2) "Totemic Complexes in North America," by 

 A. A. Goldenweiser. 



"Chronological Eelations of Coastal Algonkin 

 Culture, ' ' by Alanson Skinner. 



' ' Excavations in the Department of Peten, 

 Guatemala, ' ' by Eaymond E. Merwin. 



' ' The Else and Fall of the Maya Civilization in 

 the Light of the Monuments and the Native 

 Chronicles," by S. G. Morley. 



"The Archeology and Physical Anthropology of 

 Teneriffe, " by E. A. Hooton. 



"Early Graves of Nasca Valley, Peru," by 

 Julio C. TeUo. 



' ' Origenes Etnograficos de Colombia, ' ' by Car- 

 los C. Marquez. 



' ' Archeological Explorations in Mexico, ' ' by 

 Manuel Gamio. 



"The Eacial Factor in Delinquency," by Dr. 

 Thomas Williams. 



George Grant MacCuedt 



Yale Universitt, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



