The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-23

la ION of IA Great b var
these Ili.s show certainly an ancient ana
deeply.rooted cult The care OF ~" affairs
Was dcputrd 10 IA woman IA" kiowiedg" oil inc
ritual TO man.
sMoKE CEREMONY OF THE PAwNLEs.
Dr. G. A Dorsey. instead 81 reading his
catalog,l"d paper the publication oil when
lac laid he had arranged for elsewhere,
took up Miss fleicher's story and told
sonnet hing of the smoke ceremony 81 the
Pawnee-, If which no had been IA witness
II" said
Ti-ra-va has returned FROM, h- wander.
hear the 'rst thunder in -" -priu-. fh"n one
of the ceremonies takes place. woman
feels imrrl"d 10 riv" O." ceremony r"t-
h1ys tlrour some dream III which li-rd-Wa
ms spoken 10 her
Alter consultation and puch prcparntion.
n,rcd II IN one arr of odr"s "I rsnoy" her
eliot les and IL anointcd from head Ia foot
with red earth and buffalo meat grease. 80
tho parting in her hair. A gourd used in
the ceremony Is supposed 10 contain the
spirits Of all re dead doctor
IN bulalo's skull which. for ia" purp1Se
Of these mystic c"remoni,s. ~ assumed 70
spirit IS in tile skull Ti-ra-wa himself, In
the occultism OF the skid. IL supposed TO
occupy Il particular pl1c" on the ground,
with their fingers but never stand upon.
The whole ceremony tvplhss ~" harvcst
OF the corn. In tine Skldi h'ilti, thr req
woman become. az partCulnr moment
of the ceremony the wife of li-ra-sa on
earth. Then all 70 out to hunt. and " they
are successful they know thar the CEREMONY
has been successful and that tn" woman has
really been the Wit" Of 1i-ra VA Her re-
htlons with her husband continue, aud she
becomes thereafter 81 some Importance
"a III" trlh"
wuMANS FACE IN OLD PERUVIAN POTTERY.
VI Leon LEGAL. vice president for France,
was chairman of the afternoon session. In
n short address he said that the American
lists had not, perhaps, accomplished great
deal vet. but they had been the inst r,lments
of the establishment Of a Chair of American
Archaeology M the Institute Of France, and
the Due de- bouhat had been elected o mem
b.r-lip in the Institute because. of hio ser
vice. to American investigate ION.
VI Iei.al Rad paper on La Collection
Ceramlque de NJ. de Nar'igcs Of les vases
pcrlNicrr 4 fOune daryballc du Mlr ~
National photographic du Trocaderu."
He said thai some OF the Peruvian vases
worr a. elegant in form a. any ever made
T.. old Greece: that the cplorS wore we'll
ynmtiu"d green and black, orange and
blue. and silver and yellow.
A familiar gure vas lad feminine face,
having larc" mouth, too singular 10 be
forgotten. THIS same face was found all
over Peru VI LEGAL made no attempt
TO explain the face.
HUMOROUS SIDE OF A SKULL DEBATE.
Dr.. Dorsey then presented the skull of
The Lansing Man" H. spok" seriously,
for this skull and the other bone, found
with il are regarded ~ Ihdubitably eur
vivals Of an ancieLt period. There l. no
hoax or accident suspected But the doc
tor caused a litter to run around the Aineri-
cauS in the audience by a chance remark
II" Was handling the skull, turning IL over
and around. and he said
i really don know what can say about
IT, The skull speaks for itself
Visions Of the famous skull of Calayeras
equity aud the epiloguc II poke for itself
in Bret Hdrte's tale cam" 10 mind appar-
entity in different quarters Of the room.
Some who did Lot think of Bowers whis-
lercd bull" But in a moment all were
solemn again az u"tt'od n" Gc' aston,
The skull, Or. Dorsey said, is Of a
kind We might expect 20 find anywhere
in the United State>-a typical Indian
skull long headed, with a cephahc index
of u and a Cranlal capacity Of from ,3V
to 325 cubic ccntiinetrcS, or OF about
the range of average skulls OF any region
in North America.
rnEHlsroRIC INDIANS Like Io-DAYs.
Or Dorsey read paper on the skull
and other bones, prepared by Prof Hrdlicka
who said that the bones were not suf.
fcieutly Chalkv to mark "a IlaCki Gard.
The skeleton wa that Of a man about
81 wears old. slightly al owe msium statue
and Of medium strength. Il approaches
in all parts the acreage skeleton Of Middle
States Indian of to-day. The professor
added.
The inevitable con, fusion is That II j. Of :
man identical with tho Ordinary Indian q
TODAY And the sssuu ption that " ~ thou
sands of years old would carry with II th'
further auI NOR irlrortar' assumption thai
| in all those Thousands Of wears m" phvsics
chara,tc, ~tlCs ol the Indian have underson'
no iruIortant change.
10 IA
Marin Cuucanuon, near Lansing, Kan.
| in an excavation which was made for th'
storage Of vegetables. Attention was frs
! called 20 he skeleton bv a stray paragraph
| published hv a new ~papor rcpor' er TO whom
| Mr. CouCaunOn had shown II.
LANSING MANS" AGE PERHAPS $500 YEARS
Prof Putnam, reading from a paper
| prepared by Prof. Williston Of Chicago
| University, said that the genuinen"-'
| Of the find was apparently beyond dis
| pute The bones were found siNtv-nin,
! feet from the entrance to the tunnel, o
| aycavat on, and nineteen or twenty Zee
| below the present surface. The overlvinI
! earth strata were OF Missouri River forma
| tlun.
W. n. Holmes of the United States Ma
| tional Museum said that the geological
! period Of the skull could not be deter
mined definitely. but Prot, !. G. Chamber
| lain. the gcolOgist, was not Wiling 10 ALLOW
! 'Ntl u touIu 80 bd'h HlOl' IMAM 'i''
| years.
i think" said Mr.. Holmes, that we cal
afford TO wait, and that 40 are not iusiifi",
We, in carrying back i's date BEYOND tn
last glacial period in the MiSsiss Phi Valley.
Prof. Putnam said that II was his opinion
that the skull belonged 10 Pleistocen
| times.
| SIBERIAN AND ALASKAN INDIANS ONE RACE
Prof. Boas, in Speaking of The Worl
of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition,
! which went up the American coast from
| the Columbia River. acre - Rehring Strai
| ard along the Asiatic coast To tho Amoo
| River, mcntior ei the strong rese mblanc
| fom d between the Siberian natives an,
the II dams Of the Pacific slope Of thi
| continent II was evident, he said, tina
the people of this territory were az or
time a unified people, forming what h
called the Behring race, which was late
broken In upon 10y the ESquinau.
Waldenar BogoraS read paper EN-
| bodying comments upon some OF the so
legends and tales collected by him IN pur
suit Of his subject The Folklore of Mort
eastern Siberia a. Compared with that q
| Mort hwcstorn America a paper of kindred
interest with Prof. Boas's.
ODD LEGFNDS or THE NoR1HLAND.
There were, he said, evil spirits commo
to both continents to whom human soul
were like fish, ard these spirits hiute
the souls with ct and harpoon. There va