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katcina kilts and sashes, Snake-dance costumes, bridal and ceremonial robes, sacred water vessels, the different paints used, etc. Of unusual interest, also, are several dozen masks, some of which are quite ancient, and which, in connection with the Hopi masks obtained by the museum on a previous occasion, make this the largest and most valuable collec- tion of Hopi masks thus far obtained. Of ancient pottery the collection contains nearly five hundred pieces, including the corrugated varieties known as gray and black, as well as yellow, red, and plain ware, and also a few small selected specimens of modern pottery. The collection of objects of stone is of particular interest, as it comprises, in addition to axes, hammers, smoothing stones, corn grinders, etc., several dozen fetishes and idols, in both human and animal form, which have been in use by the Hopi for a long time, and such as are still used today. There are also two mask-forms, over which the bodies of the masks were stretched when they were made of rawhide. Mr Voth has also made a beginning in the collection of different kinds of prayer-sticks {pahos) i of which he finds a greater variety to exist than is commonly supposed. While the collection of these objects is not complete, it is the best that has thus far been obtained. As Mr Voth has had in view a collection that would illustrate the Hopi in all phases of life, his objective material contains, besides the articles specially mentioned, many others illustrating the ethnology of these interesting people, such as ornaments of shell, stone, and other material ; rattles, spoons, drills, and various other implements of horn and bone ; bows, arrows, feather-cases, and other implements and uten- sils of wood ; articles of clothing of different fabrics ; trays, gourds, baskets, rattles, and other objects of vegetal material. The collection as a whole offers unusually valuable data for the study of the Hopi people, especially as the descriptions given by Mr Voth are based on intimate acquaintance with the language, customs, and religion of these people. The Hopi collection promises to aid very materially in further studies of and researches among these most primitive people of our country. George A. Dorsey.

A Difference of Opinion — In his resume of Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt's studies of the Philippines, which appears in the January number of this journal, Dr Brinton says that "it will interest readers to learn that the Professor is positive that the Filipinos are sufficiently advanced to be capable of independent self-government, and it is his ardent wish that this shall be the outcome of our wresting them from Spanish misrule." An contraire^ Prof. Dean C. Worcester,

one of the present Philippine Commission and author of The Philippine

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