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sented. Particularly interesting are the lore of the Mestizos and the boys of Mexican children. The survival of "the past in the present " is amply illustrated here. — In the " American Anthropologist " (vol. ii. N. S. pp. 66-74) for January-March, 1900, Dr. Walter Hough writes of " Oriental Influences in Mexico," a theme of considerable importance in view of the well-known commercial relations between New Spain and the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, during which period many exchanges of products, and even of peoples took place. In this way Mr. Hough explains the presence on the coast of Mexico of the cocoanut-palm (with its toddy, called tuba, a Tagal name) ; of the banana (which came by way of Manila within the last 300 years) ; of the mango (one species is ac- tually called mango de Manila) ; of the pina-nona (the fruit of the Monstera deliciosd). The Chinese umbrella-tree, the pepper-tree, etc., came from the East Indies also, as may have done, too, the rain-coat, the wood-club, the machete, the primitive rope-twisting tool of wood. The house architecture of Mexico, according to Mr. Hough, is not without traces of East Indian influence. Per contra, the Philippines seem to have received from Mexico the century plant, the prickly pear, and the pineapple, from which latter comes the famous pina cloth. — In the " American Anthropologist " (vol. ii. N. S. pp. 145-154) for January-March, 1900, Mr. C. P. Bowditch publishes a paper on "The Lords of the Night and the Tonalamatl of the Codex Borbonicus." The author thinks that, if the Codex Borbonicus is correct, " the Lords of the Night did not have the im- portant place which they have been supposed to hold," and that there is "no proof in the Mexican picture-writings that the Indians used the Tonalamatls and the Lords for differentiating the days in any longer period of time than a solar year." It would appear that " the Tonalamatls succeeded each other, while the Lords of the Night accompanied the Tonalamatls, and lost one of their number with the ending of each Tonalamatl." The tonalamatls (from Pal- matl tonalli, "birth-sign," and amatl, "paper") are among the most interesting monuments of primitive astrology we possess. — In " The Land of Sunshine," for July, 1899, V. Granville has a brief paper, "Among the Yaqui Indians in Sonora."

Moki. In the "American Anthropologist " (N. S. vol. ii. pp. 80- 138) for January-March, 1900, Dr. J. W. Fewkes publishes a detailed account, with numerous illustrations, of "The New-Fire Ceremony at Walpi." Among the topics treated of are: Personnel of the cere- mony, kivas, ceremonial days and the events connected with them, dances, feasts, societies, and their organization, full and abbreviated ceremonies, ceremonial paraphernalia, etc. Four priest-societies, of which Dr. Fewkes gives interesting accounts, unite in the celebra-

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