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Show ! OBIGIWAL AMERICA. l1 -,n,i Annual Report of Hit Buffi Bu-ffi crlc. n Ethnology lo the Sec rH' ihu Smithsonian Institution, (T Vrtwn parts: Part If The fii fe' Printing Office, Wnshlne- , nart of tlfl3 Uno large volirme $j PLtt the Hon. J. W. Powell. Iho Bureau. It tell.s of the rrJ rJ,iivo work: of the field research jjjJI 5";. of ,,c ofllce works In i technology, sociology, phllol- wo'logl. nnJ descriptive othnol-m othnol-m ft ftut, Mentions, collections, property. ?l ''i'ffiement. gives an obltuary.no-R obltuary.no-R k Frederick Hllder, and re- K tho accompanying papers These 1ft " two-"Two Summers' Work In W Hnln'" hv Jesso Walter Fowkcs, jrir earning seventy-two plates '41' 'kindred and twenty-two Inures; viv-in Calendar Systems." by Cy-1? Cy-1? ma'?. ,lh tw'lvo plilU'3 aid frly" -l"4 ftVot Air. Fewkes In tho Pueblo ! rton the Little Colorado river. VmViu'ns ne-ar Wlnslow, including the W jlRrouP nd ,our ruins, with spec-on spec-on 1 lie rormer inhabitants; and "JWtsr Flagstaff are also described. Wreln and cv. In different parts !Sl''roiia They Include decorations on vasts, and various implements and imfc .usfd'by th" prlmltlvo Inhabitants, '-lCcf tlic objects possessing an un-Sffjjvjijic un-Sffjjvjijic ortlsiit value. Among the uSpTrtirliiis is a representation of liu-tl' liu-tl' titrints on the inside of a vaso 5fw Homolobl Bird llgures are abun-ltflD abun-ltflD t.ut for the most part unrecognlz-"Rmanyof unrecognlz-"Rmanyof them are distinctly of ICgyp-Wwrm; ICgyp-Wwrm; whether antedating the Egyp-V Egyp-V vSVtol'lowInK ! nr being an independ-sdJVlwiopmenl independ-sdJVlwiopmenl is a blind speculation. nWffr o our- of high Interest and fjxnalUs Thomas study ol' the Mayan 3tt (qljir cystem in the socond paper of .ijcYxfc on this s'jbject. He Inclines to caMVjfcf that the human face, in its phases and distortions, was used t"!l-vfrt.nt both letter-sounds and llg-jJliri llg-jJliri l"s speculations are of the most ?ciccs character; but ho has in fact Wffli'i'0 nbsoluU- foundation to build The thing that will strike one on aEfcj al lnc H'5 ' lotions is the noblo 1?'CV3 of panic nt the faces, with pro-mf pro-mf cbins and big, aquiline nosos. IredlJ U'e Mavans get their ideas of 4fctfif'? Men of tlK kin1 fl5"red bore t'jtfM.ronaueroi-s, men of might and 'JrA ryslcal and mental ability. It Cks hardly po3"1'0 tti n L such men ilfcil t-a 'content with these complicated .tij; of representing sounds anil ilg-iMr ilg-iMr Thomas's speculations would fca!e Uiit they were. |