RECORDS OF MEETINGS 343 



SECTION OP ANTHKOPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



29 January, 1912. 



Section met in conjunction with the American Ethnological Society 

 at 8 :15 p. m., Gen. James Grant Wilson presiding. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 

 The following programme was then offered: 



Pliny E. Goddard, Notes on the Jicarilla Apache. 



Summary op Paper. 



Dr. Goddard in his paper said: The Jicarilla Apache are, from the 

 point of view of material culture, a buffalo-hunting Plains people dwell- 

 ing in skin-covered tipis. Their social organization differs from that 

 of the Navaho and neighboring Pueblo tribes in lacking exogamous clans, 

 there being two geographical divisions with ceremonial and political, 

 but not marriage-regulating, functions. Among the ceremonies the 

 speaker mentioned an annual feast celebrated on the 15th of September 

 and probably connected with the corresponding celebration at Taos, the 

 conspicuous feature of both consisting in a relay race. A ceremony 

 resembling the Bear Dance of the Southern Ute is performed in cases 

 of illness and is characterized, among other things, by .sleight-of-hand 

 performances of masked dancers. The girls' puberty celebration is very 

 prominent; a distinctive feature of the Jicarilla form of this ceremony 

 seems to be the association of a young man with the adolescent girl. 

 Among the myths of the Jicarilla that of the twin heroes is prominent. 



In the course of the discussion Dr. Goddard stated that he had been 

 unable to discover myths definitely connecting the mythology of the 

 Jicarilla with that of their linguistic congeners in California and the 

 Far North. In reply to another query he expressed his belief that, 

 owing to the linguistic differentiation of the Apache, this tribe must 

 have occupied its southwestern habitat a considerable period before the 

 first historical notice of it. , 



The Section then adjourned. F. Lyman "Wells, Secretary. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



5 February, 1912. 



The Academy met at 8 :21 p. m. at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, Vice-President Woodman presiding. 



The minutes of the last business meeting were read and approved. 



