Page:Journal of American Folklore vol. 12.djvu/386

 54 Journal of American Folk-Lore.

Dr. Peet on " The Cliff-Dwellers and the Wild Tribes." The author concludes that "at the very outset of their history a very great difference between the location and social condition of the wild tribes and the Pueblos existed, and still exists." The peaceable character, industry, and high regard for women which now mark the Pueblos distinguished them from the beginning. In their art (bas- ketry, pottery, etc.), architecture (houses, tents, etc.), their dress and their physical appearance, the Cliff-Dwellers and the Pueblos differ from the wild tribes, and with the former distinct advance and pro- gress can be shown to have occurred.

Salishan. Bella Coola. As vol. ii., Anthropology I, of the " Me- moirs of the American Museum of Natural History (N. Y. 1898, pp. 25-177, plates vii.-xii.), Dr. Franz Boas publishes " The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians," — the treatise forming part of the series of memoirs whose publication is made possible by the Jesup Fund. The Bella Coola, or Bilqula, are a mixed people of Salishan stock, and their mythology is here characteristically summarized by Dr. Boas. The five worlds, the supreme deity, the solar, lunar, and other divinities of lesser sort, the thunder-bird, family traditions, crests, and ceremonial masks are all considered, and the philological and psychological acumen of the author appears to advantage in his attempts at interpretation. — In the "American Antiquarian " (vol. xxi. pp. 146-149) for May-June, 1899, Mr. C. H. Tout reviews briefly Dr. Boas's volume on the mythology of the Bella Coolas, and prints under the title "Tradition of Aijultala — a Legend of the Bella Coola Indians," a fuller and longer version of the myth of Se'lia, in which the number four plays an important role. The Kwakiutl element in the proper names of this and other myths points to the source of the borrowing that has taken place.

Uto-Aztecan. Mexican. With a commentary by Dr. E. T. Hamy, there has recently been published the " Codex Borboni- cus. Manuscrit mexicain de la Bibliotheque du Palais-Bourbon " (Paris, 1899), — the production of this valuable addition to the work- ing-materials of the Americanist being due to the munificence of the Due de Loubat and the Mexican government. This divinatory and sacerdotal record as now printed can hardly be told from the original. The tonalamatl or horoscopic book of the Codex resembles a good deal the MS. of Boturini. — In the "Verh. d. Berl. Ges. f. Anthr." for 1898 (pp. 164-177), Dr. E. Seler discusses " Das Tona- lamatl der alten Mexikaner," and in " Globus " (vol. lxxiv. pp. 297, 3 1 5) the " Codex Borgia." — To the generosity of the Due de Loubat is due also a new edition, with an introduction by Dr. E. T. Hamy, of the " Codex Telleriano-Remensis," imperfect reproductions of which had already appeared in the works of Kingsborough and de

�� �