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Spanish-American history was very extensive. In Dr Valentini's death American archeology has lost one of its most devoted and painstaking students. A. S. Gatschet.

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The Voth Collection — Through the generosity of Mr Stanley McCormick, of Chicago, the Field Columbian Museum has been enabled to purchase the ethnological collection formed by Rev. H. R. Voth, the missionary to the Hopi or Moki Indians of northeastern Arizona. This collection was gathered by Mr Voth for the purpose of aiding him in his studies of and work among these people since 1893. Mr Voth's knowledge of the Hopi language and the studies he has made of these people, not only as a missionary but also as an ethnologist, enable him to furnish with the collection such information as will make it particu- larly valuable for the study of the Hopi Indians in general, and especially those of the pueblo of Oraibi. The collection will prove so much the more valuable as Mr McCormick has provided also the means for employing Mr Voth a number of months, during which time he will assist in preparing the labels for and in augmenting the collection by reproducing various altars, sand mosaics, etc. Mr Voth's

collection has been known to scientists interested in the Hopi for some time, and several efforts have been made to purchase all or parts of it, but the collector has hitherto refused to consider any offer in that direction. His health, however, making an extended leave of absence necessary, Mr Voth saw the necessity of having the collection deposited in a place of greater security than was possible in his home at Oraibi ; he therefore finally consented to dispose of it. The collection is now being installed in the Field Columbian Museum. Perhaps the first in

general interest among the groups of objects is a collection of two hundred tihus, or dolls, representing the Hopi katcinas so far as they are known, especially those of Oraibi. In his studies of the complex question of the Hopi katcinas, Mr Voth soon discovered that many of the common tihus made by the Hopi are manufactured with little regard for accuracy, at least so far as the details of symbolism are concerned ; hence many of the tihus were made to order in accordance with the true symbolic details of the personages which they are designed to represent. They are thus more accurate miniature reproductions of the katcinas than are those generally manufactured by the Hopi for sale. Secondly may be mentioned several dozen pipes of both stone and clay, including a number that have been used only in ceremonies (some of them for a long time), some used for ordinary social smoking in the kivas, and also a few found in house ruins near Oraibi. Of

religious paraphernalia the collection contains a great variety, including

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