402 General Notes. June, 
Foreign papers of general interest are: Finlandische Archaolo- 
gische Literatur von 1745 bis heute, Dr. J. R. Aspelin in Hel- 
singfors, Archiv, x, 4; Mittheilungen aus der Anthroplogischen 
Literatur Belgiens im Jahre 1876, Prof. L. von der Kindere, 
Brüssel, zd.; Mittheilungen der russischen Literatur über Anthro- 
pologie, Dr. Ludwig Stieda, z@.; Archzological Researches at 
Carnac, in Brittany, James Miln (David Douglas, Edinburgh) ; 
Ueber die achte Jahresversammlung der deutschen anthropolo- 
gischen Gesellschaft, Graf Wurmbrand, Mittheilungen der Anthro- 
pologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 1877, 1 10; Ueber neue Aus- 
grabungen auf den alten Gräberstätten bei Hallstatt, Dr. Ferd. von 
Hochstetter, zd. 11; Zur Ethnographie Noricums, Dr. Fligier, 
id. 10 (a very scholarly paper made more valuable by the abund- 
ance of references to authorities); Die Ethnographie der Balkan- 
Halbinsel im 14 und 15 Jahrhundert, Prof. G. Hertzburg, Peter- 
mann’s Mittheilungen, L iv; Die Anfänge des Staats-und 
Rechtslebens, Das Ausland, April 1st; Growth of Ideas and Cus- 
toms, E. B. Tylor a lecture before the London Institution April 
1th; Die Urgeschichte der Menschheit, Otto Caspari, 2d edition, 
Leipzig; On c Human Hair, Prof. Schwalbe, Correspondenzblatt, 
1877, 2; On the Influence of Climate upon the Development of 
Art, aii Architecture, Prof. Portlage, zd. 
InpIAN Foop Customs.—When an Indian is out of food he 
goes to those who have plenty, and it is considered a breach of ` 
etiquette not to feed the hungry. The provident are often im- 
posed upon in this way. The Indians think it very. strange that 
some whites have a superabundance of food while others have 
none at all. The females provide most of the food. They are 
the gatherers of nuts, seeds, roots and fruits, and convert them 
into bread and mush, while the men provide the meat. The labor 
of collecting these vegetable products is very great, the women 
being compelled to wander miles from their homes to obtain 
them. They are often seen on their homeward march with 
astonishing loads, so bulky at times as to conceal them entirely. 
They wander about all day in the grain fields picking up head 
by head until they have secured a load. A merchant of Tucson 
informed me that he had bought from some Papago women three 
sacks of wheat secured in this manner. The Indians formerly 
made two kinds of bread, one is a small flat cake or biscuit 
baked in the ashes, the other is as thin as a wafer, and made in 
the following manner. Meal or flour from any native product is 
mixed with water and a little salt to the consistency of dough. 
The cook then takes a piece in her hand, pulls it and flattens it 
out until a large, thin, round cake is formed. This is baked on a 
flat, hot stone, first on one side and then on the other. Much of 
their flour and meal is eaten as mush or gruel, which eas relish 
S - TT | much ——Ldward Palmer. 
