1881. ] Anthropology. 407 
Many of the stones forming the roof are very large. “ Each 
mound seems to have been built up in three tiers, on the top of 
each of which was a fence formed of a row of terra cotta pipes 
about two feet high, connected by wooden poles or bamboo 
passed through holes about half way from the base. The paper 
is illustrated with forty-three figures, some of which resemble 
pueblo and central American specimens (Figs. 2-5), and a careful 
examination of them will well repay those who are engaged in 
the study of comparative archeology. 
Equally interesting and valuable is Mr. Josiah Conder’s paper 
in the same number, pp. 333-368, on the History of Japanese 
Costume, and we regret the want of space for an abstract. 
ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF AMERICA.—As an appendix to 
H.W. Bates’ “Central America, the West Indies and South America, 
London, 1878, 8vo, the ethnologist A. H. Keane, B. A., has pub- 
classification is made, although much material has been publish- 
ed recently on this interesting subject. In the alphabetical cata- 
logue of tribes many typographic errors are noticeable. Besides 
these, we find the following: Aruaquis are mentioned separate 
from the Arawaks or “ flour-eaters,” the Andaicos from the Nan- 
dakoes (Texas), the Mollale from Mollalas and Molels, congeners of 
the Cayuses (Oregon). The Goajiros of Venezuela, who speak a lan- 
guage clearly akin to the Carib family, are made Dariens and classt- 
€d with the Isthmian family. Among the tribes of the vee 
family of the Gran Chaco, on the Paraguay river, the importan 
