jo General Notes. [January, 



Grande Pueblos, Kera Pueblos, Wintun, Santa Barbara, and their 

 area is given with great precision. The volume closes with 

 tables of these 40 vocabularies, 211 words each, and additional 

 notes and lists of very great value. 



The space assigned to the works just noticed makes it neces- 

 sary to give but a mention to the following meritorious publica- 



18S1. 8vo. pp. 93. 



The distinguished name of the author as well as the great bene- 

 fit to the future historian to be rendered by the publication of 

 information which must be gathered now or never, are a sufficient 

 guarantee of the lasting value of the last-named work. 



Anthropology in Japan.— The Transactions of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety of Japan, do not often reach us. Vol. ix, Part 11, contains 

 the following papers : 



bNAKE bUPERSTITIONS OF THE PUEBLOS OF N E W MkxICO.— 



When I opened the old Turquoise mine at Bonanza, near 

 Santa Fe, New Mexico, we found at least two hundred rattle- 

 snakes of different kinds; also, long, thin red snakes, etc., etc., in 

 _ it. ail nesting h .-ether. We had four men in the shaft, two men 

 excavating and two protecting the others from snakes, which 

 crawled about in all directions (this was about eighteen months 

 ago). 



The Pueblo Indians car 



voutly, and lamented their fate. 





An Indian friend of mine told me that the snakes 





of Montezuma. When an Indian wants u> send a 



message to 



Montezuma, he catches a rattlesnake and carries it 



to the mine, 



being convinced that the bearer of the verbal notice 





to him one day with an answer. To this mav be a 



ttributed the 



fact that certain old mines are filled with snakes. 



They were 



carried there by Indians. — Dr. Fritzgiertncr. 



