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along characteristic profiles. In this way, at 

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VON hann's lehrbuch 

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 The f uU title is : " Lehrbuch der Meteorologie " 

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SPECIAL ARTICLES 



A CULTURE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PIMA AND 

 PAPAGO INDLiNS 



In an expedition for the anthropological de- 

 partment of the American Museum of Natural 

 History to the Southwest in the winter of 

 1901-1911, a number of new facts were ob- 

 tained during a comprehensive study of the 

 textile arts in two dozen villages of the 

 linguistically related Papago and Pima tribes, 

 which soon will be fully treated in a forth- 

 coming publication of the American Museum. 



All who had previously gone among these 

 tribes reported that the coiled basketry bearing 

 the conventional black designs is the same in 

 the two tribes. The existence of a marked 

 difference had eluded former students, but was 

 disclosed by an intensive study of their textile 

 arts. The identity of Pima and Papago bas- 

 ketry was a natural inference, as there is con- 

 stant trading between them, and in many of 

 the Papago huts are to be found, along with 

 their own coiled baskets, those of the Pima, 

 obtained by exchange for other articles made 

 exclusively by the Papago. 



7 Review by Professor E. deC. Ward, Science, 

 November 27, 1904, pp. 785-86. 



The discovery of a distinct Papago coiled 

 ware is a vital point, since it gives an indi- 

 viduality, a distinct place, to Papago coiled 

 basketry, setting it apart from coiled ware of 

 other tribes. The distinguishing features 

 when compared with Pima baskets, appear in 

 shape, in substantialness of build, and in de- 

 sign : for the base of these old bowls and trays 

 is flat and broad, in contrast to the narrow 

 base of the Pima; the walls are thick, firm, 

 and in strong spherical curves, in opposition, 

 to the thin, pliable walls in more subtle, deli- 

 cate curves of the Pima; the designs reversed 

 and on a horizontal and vertical plan, con- 

 trary to the active, spiral arrangement of the 

 Pima. I learn from Dr. Pewkes, who has 

 made an extensive archeological study of the 

 region, that this cultural differentiation may 

 be regarded as an important discovery in con- 

 nection with the problem of correlating archeo- 

 logical data from the prehistoric people of the 

 same area. 



The expedition was fortunate in securing 

 some very interesting material, among which 

 was an old Pima sleeping mat, which long ago 

 ceased to be made for lack of material, since 

 the white man has cut off tlie water supply 

 from the headwaters of the few rivers along 

 which the rush, Phragmitis communis, used 

 to grow. There was also obtained a Papago 

 ceremonial food bowl, used only when the 

 medicineman goes upon religious pilgrimages 

 for the sacred salt found below the Mexican 

 boundary. On these journeys his food con- 

 sists of pinole, eaten from this water-tight 

 basket-bowl, out of which he also drinks. An- 

 other even greater acquisition was six Papago 

 medicine baskets enclosing the magic acces- 

 sories for curing the sick and also for con- 

 trolling the weather: two of these were rain 

 baskets, one contained medicine for healing 

 rheumatism and the diseases of old age, an- 

 other a remedy for fever, still another for 

 keeping off the Apache, whom they very much 

 feared, and the sixth a white powder given to 

 infants and their parents to secure protection 

 during life from evil spirits. 



Mart Lois Kissell 

 New York 



