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given by Mr. Connelley. Some of these names are very interesting. A certain woman of the Deer clan is called " Her words float like clouds ; " another of the same clan " Echo," or " The Wonderful Talker (her word goes a long way and then comes back again) ; " a man of the Big Turtle clan " Twisting the Forest " (i. e. as the wind moves, waves, and twists the willows along the banks of the stream in which the turtle lives). The myths of the origin of the Snake and Hawk clans are given in brief (p. 118). The story of the "wampum-bird" (p. 122) tells how a young Delaware won a Wyan- dot wife (the chief's daughter) by killing the cranberry-destroying wampum-bird, and secured the wampum, which ever since has been associated with treaties. In the face of the statement on p. 114: " White men were eagerly adopted, and to such an extent had this practice been carried by the Wyandots that after the year 1820 there was not a full blood Wyandot alive," and considering the residence of the Wyandots in the State of Nebraska, with its changed environ- ment, one cannot but feel that some of the author's statements and criticisms of other investigators hardly represent the old Wyandot life and society, and there is reason to suspect Delaware influence, as well, among the Wyandots. However, the paper is a very sug- gestive one, and it is to be hoped Mr. Connelley will continue the good work he has begun.

Pueblos. From the "Monumental Records" Mr. G. H. Pepper reprints his article on " Ceremonial Deposits found in an Ancient Pueblo Estufa in Northern New Mexico, U. S. A." (N. Y., 1899, pp. 6, 6 figures and 1 plate, 4to). The deposits in question were discov- ered in and beneath the floor of a kiva in the ruin of Pueblo Bonito in the Chaco canon, New Mexico. They were probably the remains of a dedication ceremony. This discovery is very interesting in con- nection with the antiquity of these rites.

Salish. Ntlakapamiiq. In " Folk-Lore " (London), Mr. Charles Hill-Tout publishes (vol. x. 1899, pp. 195-216) his detailed version of " ' Squaktktquaclt ' or the Benign-Faced, the Oannes of the Ntla- kapamiiq, British Columbia." This Salish tribe inhabits the region about the junction of the Thompson and Fraser rivers, and the myth is one of the culture-hero sort, and of the " younger brother " va. riety. He is culture-hero, animal transformer, and befriended by the fish, whence the Mesopotamian parallel.

Uto-Aztecan. Mexican. Prof. Frederick Starr's " Catalogue of a Collection of Objects Illustrating the Folk-Lore of Mexico " (Lon- don, 1899, pp. ix. + 132), published for the Folk-Lore Society to which Mr. Starr gave the objects in question, is a most welcome little book to the folk-lorist. Toys, games, festivals, votive offerings, religious pictures, and a wide range of folk-fabrications are repre-

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