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ANTHROPOLOGY." 
pying the valley now called the Grande Ronde Reserve, Yampill 
and Polk counties, Oregon, and probably all the Kalapuya tribes 
of the Willamette valley are accustomed to invoke the celestial 
to see the sun rise. At the appearance of the god of day they 
exclaim “O, I am poor! O, I am poor! Make me rich! Make a 
chief of me!” (The chiefs being the wealthiest men in the tribes.) 
During the night they throw up with their hands little mounds 
from three to seven feet long and from twelve to eighteen inches 
high. Their design is not to conceal property or to bury the 
dead, but simply to work themselves into a terrible sweat. Their 
exertions often occupied five nights, the wandering about without 
good portents. These tamanowus dreams are regarded very 
highly among them.—Adéert S. Gatschet. . 
THE THIRD VOLUME OF CONTRIBUTIONS to North American Eth- 
nology, published by the Department of the Interior, under the 
editorial charge of Major J. W. Powell, is a positive addition to . , 
introduced to the literary world by Mr. H. H. Bancroft in his 
ative Races, and contains an exhaustive account of his researches 
among the California tribes. The preface contains a rather 
severe blow at Major Powell’s pet theory about the sparseness 
Indian population on our continent, the publication of which is 4 
tribute to the fairness of the Major as well as to the independence 
of Mr. Powers. The latter part of the work is occupied by — 
vocabularies, in the collection of which Major Powell is especially 
ngaged. 
of February 16th, contains the description of another carve 
slate tablet, found in No. 11 of the Cook Farm group, from 
the cremation tablet was taken last year. It is about seven an 
a-half by 12 inches, and has on one surface a human figure sur- 
1 Edited by Prof. Or1s T. Mason, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
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