New-York tribune., 1902-10-23
DISPUTE OVER DUG UP CITY.
DECLARES HONOR AWARDED By
PRESIDING OFFICER HIS.

Two sessions were held by the Americanists yes
terday for the reading Of papers. over the first
Senor Alfredo Chavero presided He also described
The Signs of the Days in the ancient Central
American city of Palengue In the course of his re-
marks he incidentally gave Secretary Save credit
Tor having exploited the buried city of st. Aban.
When he had finished IeopOldo Batres. OF the
Mexican Government. arose and declared very ex-
citedly that he himself the expOiter of Mount
Alban Mr.. Saville declared that he had done moth
Ing IN the of digging out the city. and gave
all the praise Senior Batres.
Dr. W. J. McGee of the National Geographical
Society. of Washington. discussed Some Funda-
mental Factors in Social Organization" In this
country, he said, archaeology based not on
what men now thought. but on the Interpretation
OF primitive man. and not much on what he did
as on what he thought The primitive man was
more bound by laws than ourselves. as well as by
an unconscious law. He told of tribe he saw on
an island in the Gulf of Mexico which was entirely
without of using a knife. He saw woman
attempting TO pound off the leg of horse with
round stone.
Miss Alice C. Fletcher. of the Peabody Museum of
Harvard University. who has given four years OF
study to the ceremonies and ritual of the Paunees
gave account of them One of the four bands
into which the tribe is divided. the Skdis had sew
eral villages each with its own shrine. The sa-
cred symbolic articles. the ceremonial use of them
and the rituals which were said or sung were be-
heved 10 have been given to the different villages
by many different stars The star gave It's
name to the shrine. and the of the shrine be-
came the name of the village
Dr. G. A. Dorsey. of the Field Columbian Mu-
scum. of Chicago. followed with an account of the
Sun dance among the Pawnees.
Leon Lejed1. OF the College of France. and dele
gate from that country, occupied the chair at the
afternoon session. NJ. Lejeal read a paper on
The Coin and Vase Collection of NJ. de Sartiges.
in the Museum National d photographic ju Troca-
dero" He declared that the objects contained
therein were elegant anything which came
from old Greece, showing colors well combined
green with black. orange with blue and silver with
yellow. Throughout occurred sad feminine face
with a large mouth. too sorrowful ever to forget
These found all through Peru and by some
solar attributes were given to them
The skull found at Lansing. Kan, last March.
and recently described by The Sunday Tribune. was
exhibited by DR. George 4. Dorsey. of the Field
Columbian Museum. I'm Chicago. Dr. Hrdlicka or
this city. contributed short paper the subject
details. Perhaps the most valuable comment Was
that OF Professor W; III. Holmes the new chief OF
haustive study of the so-caled Calaveres skull is
so we'll remembered. He said that the skull was
mantle silly that of Indian. and as no one could
be sure OF the period from which II came he was
In favor Of not attaching too much importance 70
the skeleton back TO the glacial period OF the
Mississippi Valley.
both the Natural History Museum in this city and
the Peabody Museum Of Harvard. and one OF the
most widely known and honored ethnoogists In
this county. exhibited three skulls which he had
taken from the gravel near Trenton. n j. These.
believed to be chips left by stone implement
makers were found in deposits which are attrib-
That view is not unanimously held. however. ana
there has been much controversy over these relics,
as 20 both their siGnihcance ana age.
reassemble at Columbia University for an examina-
tiOn Of the buildings and luncheon with President
Butler- The afternoon session will begin at 80
o'clock.