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A MONTHLY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGIC

LITERATURE

COMPILED BY ROBERT FLETCHER, M. D.

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Li6tard. De la resistance des types anthropologiques aux influences des milieux. Bull. m6d. d. Vosges, Apinal, 1898-9, xiii, No. 49, 34-49.-- Lindsay (S. McC.) The unit of investigation or of consideration in sociology. Publ. Am. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sc., Phila., 1898, 44-56. Also, Reprint. Iabille (L.) Tatouage et detatouage. Nord. med., Lille, 1898, iv, 215-219.--Maclagan (R. C.) Sacred fire. Folk-Lore, Lond., 1898, ix, 280, 1 pl.-Mahler (R.) Siedelungsgebiet und Siedelungs- lage in Oceanien unter Berfick- sichtigung der Siedelungen in In- donesien. Internat. Arch. f. Ethnog., Leiden., 1898, xi, suppl., v, 1-72.-- Manouvrier (L.) Apergu de cepha- lom6trie anthropologique. Inter- mod. d. biol., Par., 1897-8, i, 470; 490.-Mitra (S. C.) A rain cere- mony from the MurshidbAd dis- trict of Bengal. Folk-Lore, Lond., 1898, ix, 277-280. - Miura (M.) Ueberziihlige Finger und Zehen. Mitth. a. d. med. Fac. d. k. jap. Univ., Tokio, 1898, v, 7-12, 1 pl.- von Morawetz Dierkes(L.) Land und Leute in Finland. Mitth. d. geog. Gesellsch., Wien, 1898, xli, 219-261.-de Mortillet (G.) Age du bronze en Belgique. Rev. mens. de l'Ecole d'anthrop. de Par., 1898, viii, 280-284.-de Mortillet. Chris- tianized megalithic monuments. Pop. Sc. Month., N. Y., 1898, liii, 668-673.-de Nadaillac. L'homme et le singe. Rev. d. quest. scient.,

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cetto del pudore. Anomalo, Napoli, 1898, viii, 142-150.-Watson (A.) Sciopodes. Reliquary & Illustr. Archaeol., Lond., 1898, iv, 269.-- Weber. Ueber die Bedeutung der Degeuerationszeichen. Allg. Ztschr. f. Psychiat., [etc.], Berl., 1898-9, Iv, 164.-Weingart. Die Spiritisten vor dem Landgericht Dresden. ibid., 166-170.-Wilke. Kindes-

mord bei Naturvblkern der Gegen- wart und Vergangenheit. Globus, Brnschwg., 1898, lxxiv, 211-213.- Worcester (D. C.) Notes on some primitive Philippine tribes. Nat. Geog. Mag., Wash., 1898, ix, 284- 301.- Zuccarrelli (A.) L'antro- pologia nell'avvenimento Dreyfus- Zola. Anomalo, Napoli, 1898, viii, 129-141.

WERE THE ANCIENT ESKIMO ARTISTS ?-Having previously expressed the opinion that, before the coming of the white man, the Eskimo did not etch to any extent upon bone, antler, horn, wood, or ivory, I have lately had this opinion confirmed by ex- amination of a large collection of ancient relies from the island of Attu, which is the farthest west of the Aleutian chain. It does not need more than a superficial glance to convince the student that the artistic expression of the Eskimo, in the line of

etching, is exactly parallel to the extent to which he has come in contact with white men; first, with the sailor and the whaler, with their rude and often clever scrimshaw work, and, finally, the Russian and American jewelers with their exquisite tools.

So true is this that at a few points in Alaska the Russian of the last century (having first been in contact with the Sandwich islanders and then with the Eskimo) has succeeded in adding to the native art motives and forms of decoration common to all the Polynesian groups.

The people of Attu are Aleutian islanders, and the women are

extremely expert in the manufacture of all sorts of fine needle work and basketry.

The men do not lack talent, because, after the Russian occu-

pancy, their later forms of ivory tools and weapons are exqui- sitely made and decorated; but on the old objects taken from the graves by Lucian Turner, covering quite a large variety of

functions, especially of weapons, there is not a dot, circle, or any other conventional etching, or any attempt to carve the figure of a man or beast. The effort, therefore, to derive the Eskimo from an artistic people on the eastern hemisphere, on account of their later performances, is made at great hazard.

O. T. MASON.

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