The sun., 1902-10-26


: cable from the Minister Of Justice and Public
| Inst ruction In Mexico city, expressing ap-
| proval OF Sehor Chavero's cour4e.
The cablegram Instructed = nor Chav"ro,
| the President Of the delegation, TO remain
in the cpng ess till It's close, and directed
Sefor Batres to retire.
Immediately after ita reading. Mr.. Jesup
called all the vice. presidents to the plat form
and rewarded. took his place a. viCs'-pros-
deit for Mexico, while people looked about
In vain search for the presence OF Delegate
Batres. His ample proportions were seen
10 more In the Congress.
| The oongress voted to hold ito fourteenth n
, session. two years hence, ii stuttgart, where
il had b..en hidden III an invitation brought
here by Dr. Won den Steugen, A. a committee
10 ARA ge for the next meeting he coIgrcss
selected Count Linden. Chief Court
| Chamberlain to the kig Of Wutcnlberg.
and head of the Eth oogical Museum at
Stuttgart. and Drs. Won den Steihen and
1 Seller.
| A plea was entered that every effort
he made to enlist 10 the largest degree
| the interests of the South American rr-
| publics and Spain. 50 that they may con-
| tribute as much as may bc to the Stuttgart
ngress. DIR Won den Steinen promised
that all possible efforts In that direction
| would he made.
Baron van Panhuys exhibited number
/ Of carved combs and gourds which he had
| brought over TO show To the ngress from
the Hta lem Museum. in illustration Of the
native culture a. influenced bv the bush
| Of Dahoiney people, who had escaped from
| the slavery Of the Dutch coast plantations
| and had established themselves almost
Independently in the interior.
| Carvings In the ornamental combs ex-
hibited hgures representative OF the hatch
| cts and arrow or spear heads like thore
| used by the Americans befor. stone i'm
! pienients were abandoned Others show ed
| car wings inspired by the form q man, tn"
| arms being represented III senenllne
| curves. This sinuOus curve, evolved Il ON
| the lines of the serpent. ecane III some
| of the carvings a dout lc uiaIge Aad 30
| thoroughly and widely was this rNmL oi
understood down there. as well a. Ia KIND
| drcd and scat cred regions, that, the Baron
| said, IL a double triangle were shown to
| az once snakes head The Carib would
say the same thing. showing that people
separated in culture would reach the same
ideas and symbols at times
The Baron gave 10Y to the liz glists when
| he wanted to speak of Lat. He got the
word finally, but was not sure OF II and he
said: Il would speak of a mouse that il
fying.' His audience applaudcd him JOY
ously al once.
The Baron showed drawing of star
with two tails, familiar among the Guiana
natives lie had been studying L ki CIV
tails. ne said but l did not Know that
the bush negroes were 50 far advanced In
astronomical science, So ] asked one Of
them why they drew two tails TO Il star
He said IL was To act as counterbalanCo
TO make svrnnletrical.'
DIR. Stolpe Of Sweden spoke of the many
places where the human figure Il taken up
In ornamentation and where the arms and
legs take on at once spiral shaIr. In
the case OF Guiana he thought that this form
81 10. ~ 81.
fuence. He had noticed also in many
places. he said. that as soon as the human
figure becomes an ornament, about the
first thing he does Is to lose his head"
There seemed TO he some lingering doubt
az TO whether DR. S'olpe had intended 70
be in any way sa,irical no matter how
scientific The snake-armNt and snake
legged human forms shown in the Baron'S
exhibits had lost their heads, 40 far a.
any sort of accurate representation was
concerned
C.V.Hartman Of the swedish Arc %1logi-
cal Society exhibited slides ilis rating
finds he had made in Costa Roa, includ
Ing the spoils of tombs Of the stone Age.
He showed pictures of stone heads which
were found in the graves with the skeletons.
Pueblo Bonito. New Mexico George II.
Pepper showed number of sterCop; icon
views made in connection with III" work OF
the HYDE exploring expedition among the
fltDlp-. liz eNIl'Hffr inc dIl OF 'lls
MoQui- In repairing their pottery vases
and their ornaments of Jade and other
precious or scmi-preCious stones. by drilling
The pieces. running cords through them.
and them cementing them together with
Yucca gum.
He showed a picture Of their pottery
decoration representative OF an ear of
corn, with each kernel painfully outll ed
He showed also pictures of the pottery
vessels which used 10 hold the ceremonial
sticks used in the religion of those people
Some Of them were finely decorated, from
the standpoint of the primitive ait in which
the decorators worked. Mr.. Pepper ex-
pressed the opinion that the small adoba
balls used AZ the modern altars OF the people
to hold the ceremonial sticks were the de-
graded survivals Of the ornate pottery
vessels which. In the days of Moqui great
ness. supported the sticks
In one room, SIX feet square, explored
by the HYDE party there were found four
teen skeletons and more than 5000 pieces
of ornamental carvings, including a tur-
quoise god of the ater, - which in rough
English is representation OF the tadpole,
that creature typifying the water deity
or spirit to the Pueblo people.
Mr.. Pepper showed picture Of a baSkctrv
cylinder which had been overlsii with n
mosaic Of turquoise carvings. Wncn this
was found the basketrv had docavod and
the stones were only held in place by equaH-
zatiOn Of pressure, Each had been carefully
fitted into its place by the ancient workm"n.
When the sand that had Accumulated about
the treasure had been busted away the
stones fell apart, The work required ON
such a piece and on other urnan"u,ed
articles found in the pueblo would be under
stood better when II was remembered that
all carvings were made 10y the use Of bone,
stone and wood tools only.
Messrs. Boas. Saville and Putnam we're
named a. a committee to prepare III" papers
presented at the congress for pGbl!Cai ion.