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[Vol. XIX. No, 469 



at Berlin (80 p. and 16 plates, Berlin, W. Spemann, 1891). The 

 explorer. Dr. P. Ehrem-eich, here presents his observations, studies, 

 and experiences from July to November, 1888, among the tribes 

 of the Araguaya River in the Brazilian province of Goyaz and 

 those of the Puru River, a tributary of the middle Amazonas. 

 These reports appear under the modest subtitle, " Beitrage zur 

 Volkerkunde Brasiliens," and the illustrations in the text are just 

 as instructive as those in the plates. Of the Goyaz tribes the 

 Karaya were the chief object of the explorer's studies; among the 

 Puru tribes, the Yamamadi, Ipurina, and Paumari. The accounts 

 given of their customs and manners, implements, weapons, dances, 

 and other merrymakings are as interesting as the specimens of 

 their folk-lore, of which many instances are inserted. The masks 

 used in the dances cover the whole body, and are figm-ed on pages 

 35 and 36. 



— Warren K. Moorehead writes, in the Illustrated American for 

 Jan. 30, a most remarkable and interesting story about "New 

 Relics of the Mound Builders in Ross County, Ohio." One of 

 these relics, he says, is the skeleton of a man with copper helmet 

 with antlers, and the other is a Swastika cross, oriental in charac- 

 ter, and is one of the first finds ever unearthed to show the origin 

 of the Indians. He says in this connection: " The discovery of 

 four, crosses, which are peculiarly oriental in character, marks a 

 new epoch in American archaeology. M. G. de Mortiellet, the 

 eminent French anthropologist, refers to the same style of cross 



found by the survey, and gives numerous illustrations in his works 

 of its occurrence on pottery, sepulchres, and monuments of Brit 

 tany, Italy, and particularly India. The Swastika was used as 

 one of the emblems of Buddha worship before the Christian era, 

 and may have spread later into Phoenicia. This symbol is occa- 

 sionally found in Egypt and China, but, so far as the writer is 

 aware, not in Yucatan or Mexico. A cross does occur on the 

 Palestine tablet, but it is not the Swastika. No skeleton in the 

 mound indicated a person of more importance than No. 248. 

 Copper antlers. 33 x 33 inches, extended from the forehead upward. 

 The breast and back were covered with copper plates, bear teeth, 

 and other singular ornaments. Strings of beads lay about the 

 ankles and wrists, while at the feet were traces of decayed sandals. 

 The copper horns had been originally fastened to a helmet of copper, 

 covering the skull from the upper jaw to the base of the occipital. 

 A rough cloth skirt extended from the waist to the knees. Where 

 the copper plates came in contact with the fabric it was well pre- 

 served. Beautiful pearl beads and large bear and panther tusks 

 were interlaced or sti-ung upon the front of the garment. The 

 other skeletons were covered with shell beads, and a few copper 

 plates and celts accompanied them." 



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 D. Appleton & Co., to provide brief untechnical treatises for the 

 educated layman who has neither time nor inclination to become 

 a specialist, but who feels the need of informing himself on the 



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