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with a brief comparative vocabulary and photographic illustrations. A detailed account of the tipi, or lodge of the plains Indians, their dress, is included.—In the "Mittheilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien" (Bd. xxvii. S. 127–170), J. von Siemiradzki publishes "Beitrage zur Ethnographie der südamerikanischen Indianer."

Games. To the "Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1896," Mr. Stewart Culin contributes (pp. 665–942) an elaborate monograph, with fifty plates and more than two hundred figures, on "Chess and Playing Cards," being a "Catalogue of Games and Implements for Divination exhibited by the U. S. National Museum, in connection with the Department of Archæology and Palæontology of the University of Pennsylvania, at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 1895." This monograph is a perfect storehouse of information and illustration. Pages 689–786 are occupied with a detailed description of the games of the various Indian tribes of North America, alphabetically arranged according to linguistic stocks, followed by a table showing the nature, number, material, use, etc., of the gaming implements, etc. Professor Culin's monograph is but one more of his acute studies of the gaming activities of primitive peoples, and their correspondences among those who are or have been civilized.

Migration. In the "Popular Science Monthly" (vol. liv. pp. 1–15) for November, 1898, Prof. T. S. Morse discusses the question, "Was Middle America peopled from Asia?" Professor Morse furnishes numerous and excellent reasons why Central America was not peopled from civilized Asia, and there is little reason for deriving American savages from uncivilized Asiatics.

Music. To the "American Anthropologist" (vol. xi. pp. 344–346) E. H. Hawley contributes a brief paper on the "Distribution of the Notched Rattle," a primitive musical instrument represented by the pampuniwap of the Utes, and the truhkunpi of the Moki Indians. These notched bones are rubbed with other bones to produce a musical sound. They have been found in Mexico, and bamboo and wooden instruments of like sort are found on the Amazon, in Africa, and elsewhere.—From vol. vii. of the "Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences" (Davenport, Iowa), Prof. Frederick Starr reprints an interesting paper on "Notched Bones from Mexico," in which he discusses the omichihuas, "strong bone," the primitive Aztec musical instrument referred to above, the significance of which Dr. Hrdlička in his earlier paper on notched bones from Mexico did not make clear. Professor Starr's specimens settle the matter beyond a doubt, and the author adds the further information that "the notched sticks of the Tonkaways and the