LIBRARY. O -OF Aboriginal American Literature. GENERAL EDITOR AND PUBLISHER: D. G. BRINTON, M. D., 115 South 7th St., PHILADELPHIA. The aim of this series of publications is to put within the reach of scholars -authentic materials for the study of the languages and culture of the native races of America. Each work is the production of the native mind, and is printed in the original tongue, with a translation and notes, and only such are selected as have some intrinsic historical or ethnological importance. The volumes of the series are sold separately, at the prices named. NOW READY. No. I. THE CHRONICLES OF THE MAYAS. Edited by DANIEL G. BRINTON, M. ]). Cloth, uncut, $5.00. This volume contains five brief chronicles in the Maya language of Yucatan, written shortly after the Conquest, and carrying the history of that people back many centuries. To these is added a history of the Conquest, written in his native tongue, by a Maya Chief, in 1562. The texts are preceeded by an introduction on the history of the Mayas; their lang uage, calendar, numeral system, etc.; and a vocabulary is added at the close. No. H. THE IROQUOIS BOOK OF RITES. Edited by HORATIO HALE.. Cloth, uncut, $3.00. This work contains, in the Mohawk and Onondaga languages, the speeches, songs and rituals with which a deceased chief was lamented and his successor installed in office. It may be said to throw a distinct light on the authentic history of Northern America to a period fifty years earlier than the era of Columbus. The introduction treats of the ethnology and history of the Huron-Iroquois. A map, notes and a glossary complete the work. No. III. THE COMEDY-BALLET OF GÜEGÜENCE. Edited by DANIEL G. BRINTON, M. D. Cloth, uncut, $2.50. A curious and unique specimen of the native comic dances, with dialogues, called bailes, formerly common in Central America. It is in the mixed Nahuatl-Spanish jargon of Nicaragua, and shows distinctive features of native authorship. The Introduction treats of the ethnology of Nicaragua, and the local dialects, musical instruments, and dramatic representations. A map and a number of illustrations are added. No. IV. A MIGRATION LEGEND of the CREEK INDIANS By A. S. GATSCHET. 251 Pages. Cloth, uncut, $3.00. This learned work offers a complete survey of the ethnology of the native tribes of the Gulf States. The strange myth or legend told to Gov. Oglethorpe, in 1732, by the Creeks, is given in the original, with an introduction and commentary. No. V. THE LENAPE AND THEIR LEGENDS. By D. G. BRINTON. Price, Cloth, $3.00. The extraordinary WALAM OLUM or RED SCORE of the Delewares is the basis of this work. The complete original text is given, with its 184 pictographs, a new translation, vocabulary, notes, and a long introduction on the Lenape, their legends, myths, customs, history and language. Much of it is from unpublished and original sources. ху STONE GRAVES—the Work oF INDIANS.-Third paper, by Cyrus Thomas. THE CHIEF GOD OF THE ALGONKINS, IN HIS CHARACTER AS A CHEAT AND LIAR.-By THE SACRIFICIAL STONE OF San Juan, TEOTIHUACAN.—By Amos W. Butler.. CORRESPONDENCE.-Ancient Fortifications in Ohio, by S. H. Binkley; Human Footprints in Nicaragua, by Earl Flint; Shell Mounds in California; Gambling amongst the Pie- EDITORIAL.-Animal Effigies and Native Symbolism Compared; The three-fold division of the Human Race; The Darwinians in American Archæology. NOTES FROM THE FAR EAST.-By Prof. John Avery-The Pigmy Races; Ktesias; Gold Digging Ants; Library at Alexandria. NOTES ON CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY.-By Prof. A. C. Merriam-The New Year's Day of Different Nations; Divination by Dice-throwing: “Obadiah's Seal;" Peculiar Bronze Statuettes; A Maonian Goldsmith's Mould; Additional Inscriptions at Epidaurus; An Altar and Statues at Oropus; A Cyclopean Gate; Ancient Library at Pergamus; Nau- cratis; Temple at Luxor; The Wolfe Expedition; The Poet Menander; The Couch NOTES ON EUROPEAN ARCHEOLOGY.-By Henry Philips, Jr..-A Palæolithic Implement; Fetich Worship in China; Pre-Christian Inscriptions; Stone Hatchets in China; Tri- angular Axe at Verona, Italy; Numismatics in Spain; Folk-Lore Societies.. Antiquarian American An AND Oriental Journal. This is a Bi-Monthly Illustrated Magazine, Published in Chicago, Ill., and edited by Rev. S. D. Peet, assisted by gentlemen residing in New York, Philadelphia, Washington and various other places. Its object is mainly to furnish a medium of communication between Archæologists in different parts of the globe, but it is an interesting magazine for any one to read. THERE ARE EIGHT DEPARTMENTS in the Journal, each of which is represented by an associate editor, who is expected to furnish notes on his own specialty, as follows: CLASSICAL ARCHEOLOGY, by Prof. A. C. MERRIAM, Columbia College, New York; "The Far-East," by Prof. J. AVERY, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY, by Rev. SELAH MERRILL, D. D., Consul at Jerusalem; ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE, by Dr. D. G. BRINTON, Philadelphia, Pa.; NATIVE MYTHOLOGY, by Rev. J. O. DORSEY, Ethnological Bureau, Washington, D. C.; EUROPEAN ARCHEOLOGY, by HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; ANCIENT ART and ARCHITEC TURE, by Dr. J. D. BUTLER; INDIAN LINGUISTICS, by A. S. GATSCHET, Ethnological Bureau, Washington, D. C. To the journal are all gentlemen who are well known for their scholarship. The most of them are citizens of the United States, but some are residents in England, France, Greece, China, India, Africa and remote countries. The Magazine has a Department of CORRESPONDENCE, which may be regarded as a most interesting feature. This is sustained by gentlemen who are engaged in original research in various parts of the globe, and who furnish the results of their investigations for publication to us directly. We frequently hear from the Mounds, and report all discoveries among them, but persons in Colorado, Arizona, California, Washington Territory, Nicaragua, New Mexico and Mexico, and many and more remote places send us letters which we are glad to receive and to publish. The progress of Archæology is so rapid that the only way to conduct a journal is to keep up a correspondence with all parts, and so bring together the result for comparison. We do not propose to be narrowed down to any limited province or field, but, while particular in giving the details, shall take a broad and comprehensive view of the science, expecting our readers to select the points from the general information, on which they may build up their own specialties. BOOK REVIEWS we shall hope to make useful. A department called "Reports" will review the proceedings of Societies, and Book Reviews proper will be confined to the volumes sent by publishers for notice. We offer the journal to the public as one which has already been in the field for several years, and one which has gained a reputation for itself throughout the world, and think that the friends of Archæology will realize the importance of sustaining it. F. H. REVELL, Publisher. STEPHEN D. PEET, Editor. TESTIMONIALS. This magazine, which is justly recognized as an authority on the subject of Archæology, is invaluable to the scholar and others for whom the study of Mythology and research into the literature and legends of races of prehistoric times possess a charm, which increases as opportunities widen to assist them.-The Household. The object is to collect material on the antiquities of this country, and it has, through its competent editor and scholarly correspondents, already done a great work.-Western Farmer. We have for several years been acquainted with this publication, which is steadily growing in interest and popularity among antiquarians.-Christian Advocate. Intensely interesting to our reading farmers and literary men, especially to those on whose lands are found relics of past races, peoples now known only by the records left in mounds and the accompanying implements, pottery, etc.-Farmer and Fruit Grower. We recommend all our readers who have time and taste for the study of the past, to procure the American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. The number before us for September is especially rich in papers on those American antiquities which are everywhere becoming matters of interest.-The Wesleyan. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, edited by Rev. Stephen D. Peet, Chicago, Ill., has a valuable table of contente, and is designed for the most thoughtful class of readers. It is considered authority on the subject of Archæology.-Rural Californian. Subscription Price, $4.00 Per Year. The stone graves so common in some sections of our country, will, when properly studied, furnish the Antiquarian with an apparently unbroken chain, linking some, at least, of the veritable mound-builders with well-known modern Indian tribes. The evidence they furnish bearing upon the question now under discussion is peculiarly valuable, as it will probably explain in part some of the troublesome riddles of the mounds, and also throw some rays of light into the dark mystery that still enshrouds the history of one important and still existing tribe. These graves, as is well known, are formed of rough unhewn slabs or flat pieces of stone. First, In a pit dug for the purpose, some two or three feet deep and of the desired dimensions,-a layer is placed to form the floor; next, similar pieces are set on edge for the sides and ends, over which other slabs are laid flat, forming the covering, the whole, when finished, making a rude box-shaped coffin or sepulcher. Sometimes one or more of the six faces are wanting, occasionally the bottom consists of a layer of water-worn boulders; sometimes the top is not a single layer, but other pieces are laid over the joints, and sometimes they are placed shingle fashion. These graves vary in length from fourteen inches to eight feet, and in width from nine inches to three feet. It is not an unusual thing to find a mound containing a number of these cists, arranged in two, three, *The first paper appeared in the American Antiquarian, March, 1884, the second, March, 1885. |