tribes to change the name of the family 
of the deceased, and to drop the name of 
the dead in whatever connection. 
Consult Bancroft, Native Baces, 1874; 
Dixon in Bull. Am. Mils. Nat. Hist., xvii, 
pt. hi, 1905; Farrand, Basis of Am. 
Hist., 1904; Holm, Descr. New Sweden, 
1834; Jesuit Relations, Th waites ed., 
i-lxxii, 1896-1901; Kroeber in Bull. Am. 
Mus. Nat. Hist., xvm, pt. i, 1902; Owen, 
Musquakie Folk-lore, 1904; and the vari- 
ous reports of the B. A. E., especially 
the 1st Report, containing Yarrow’s Mor- 
tuary Costoms of the N. A. Indians, and 
authorities therein cited. See Mourning, 
Religion, Urn Burial. (c. t. ) 
Morzhovoi (Russian: ‘walrus’). An 
Aleut village at the end of Alaska penin., 
Alaska, formerly at the head of Morzho- 
voi bay, now on the n. shore, on Traders 
cove, which opens into Isanotski bay. 
Pop. 45 in 1833 ( according to Veniamino f ) 
68 in 1890. 
Morshevoi.— - Petroff in 10th Census, Alaska, 19, 1884. 
Morshewskoje, — Holmberg, Ethnog. Skizz., map, 
142, 1855. Morzaivskoi. — Elliott, Cond. AS. Alaska, 
225, 1875. Morzhevskoe, — Veniaminof, Zapiski, ii, 
203,1840. Morzovoi, — Post route map, 1903. New 
Morzhovoi.— Baker, Geog. Diet. Alaska, 1902. 
Old Morzhovoi, — Ibid. Protasso. — Petroff in 10th 
Census, Alaska, map, 1884 (strictly the name of the 
Greek church here). Protassof. — Ibid., 23. Pro- 
tassov,— Petroff, Rep. on Alaska, 25, 1881. 
Mosaic. An art carried to high perfec- 
tion among the more cultured aborigines 
of Mexico, where superb work was done, 
several examples of which enrich Euro- 
pean museums. The art was but little 
in vogue n. of Mexico. Hopi women of 
to-day wear pendants made of small 
square or oblong wmoden tablets upon 
which rude turquoise mosaics are set in 
black pinon gum. These are very inferior, 
however, to specimens recovered from 
ancient ruins in the Gila and Little Colo- 
rado valleys in Arizona, and in Chaco 
canyon, N. Mex., which consist of gor- 
gets, ear pendants, and other objects, 
some of which are well preserved while 
others are represented only by the foun- 
dation form surrounded by clusters of 
settings loosened by decay of the matrix. 
Turquoise was the favorite material, but 
bits of shell and various bright-colored 
stones were also employed. The foun- 
dation form was of shell, wood, bone, and 
jet and other stone, and the matrix of gum 
or asphaltum. Although the work is 
neatly executed, the forms are simple and 
the designs not elaborate. One of the best 
examples, from the Little Colorado drain- 
age in Arizona, is a pendant rudely repre- 
senting a frog, the foundation of w-hich is 
a bivalve shell, the matrix of pitch, and 
the settings of turquoise are arranged in 
lines conforming neatly to the shape of 
the creature, a bit of red jasper being set 
in the center of the back ( Fewkes ) . Un- 
fortunately the head of the frog has dis- 
