1885.] 3 Anthropology. 623 
Abbe Roquet, in the Bishop’s bh is an excellent Choctaw 
scholar, speaking the language fluently. e is collecting mate- 
rial for a grammar and dictionary of that language. 
In the New Orleans exposition almost every State and foreign 
government has exhibited something of the greatest interest to 
the anthropologist. From Maine we have basket and bark work 
of the Quoddy Indians. From, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri 
Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and a few other States there 
are very instructive private collections of antiquities. Louisiana 
exhibits one screen of the blow-tubes, basketry, bows and arrows 
and clothing of the Shetimasha Indians. Minnesota has a very 
large exhibit of sledges, birch bark work and Indian clothing. 
Nebraska, Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, 
Nevada and California all exhibit the weapons, dress and imple- 
ments of their modern tribes. The Greely relief relics attract 
a great deal of attention, including a great many articles illustra- 
tive of Greenland Eskimo life. In the government space are two 
anthropological exhibits. That of the Bureau of Ethnology con- 
tains the excellent models of Pueblos by the Mindeleff brothers, 
two Indian busts executed by Achille Collin, a fine group of pot- 
teries from Chiriqui and from the pueblos, and the superb cabinet 
of old pueblo pottery belonging to Mr. Thomas Keam, who also 
displays a large case of Moqui dance paraphernalia. 
The Smithsonian exhibit contains a typical series of stone im- 
plements arranged by Dr. Charles Rau, and an educational series 
of modern Indian specimens covering the entire continent and 
including every category of savage culture 
The Mexican department cannot be $0 highly praised. Ina 
store room at’45 Chartres street Mr. Abbadiano, a Mexican 
artist, has on exhibition a series of gelatine casts of celebrated 
Mexican antiquities for which he asks eight thousand dollars. 
The work in these far surpasses in delicacy that of M. Charnay 
in the Lorillard collection. It comes out also by examination 
that M. Charnay did not take the impression of the whole sacri- 
ficial stone but a group or two here and there and multiplied them 
to get the fifteen groups around the stone. Now in Abbadiano’s 
cast of the whole stone it plainly appears that the second and 
fourth group to the left of the gutter contain women, and further- | 
more the ornaments on the persons of the captives are by no 
eva all alike. M. Abbadiano’s collection should find place in 
some great public institution, and it is to be hoped that he will 
succeed in placing it there. 
_ The Mexican department proper contains about 700 cases, in 
every one of which something can be seen illustrative either of 
the old civilization of that iiy or of those interesting survi- 
vals and transitions which throw light upon the history of man- 
kind. The native drinks from the yuccas and cactuses, leather 
