Review

Author(s): A. S. Gatschet
Review by: A. S. Gatschet
Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1903), p. 350
Published by: Wiley on behalf of the American Anthropological Association
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350 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST [N. s., 5, 1903

The Iroquois Silver Brooches. - By HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE.

print from the Fifty-fourth Report of the New York State Mus
1900oo). Albany: 1902. 80, 26 pp., ills.
The author shows, in ninety-three illustrations, neatly executed in
line, a typical collection of hammered coin brooches made by th
quoian Indians. The paper suggests that the designs of these pie
jewelry are neither English, French, nor Dutch. We are somewhat fam
with modern silver work from the southwestern part of the United S
but we have here an interesting addition to the art of native silver w
In some of the objects are represented the owl, in others the eagle, an
the cross and the Masonic emblem, in addition to conventional h
shaped ornaments, single or interwoven in duplicate. These objec
mostly made into brooches, though there are finger-rings, ear-rings
head-bands. It can scarcely be admitted, however, that we have
sented in these attractive ornaments "entire originality," or "to
devices," or " secret symbols of the medicine-lodge," or Indian "my
to the extent claimed by the author. The brooches represent a t
character, suggestive of European design, though containing suffici
aboriginal character to entitle them to be called "Iroquoian broo
The paper will be a welcome addition to the study of the evolut
early silver work. JOSEPH D. McGUIRE.

Notes Upon the Ethnography of Southern Mexico. Par

FREDERICK STARR, Ph.D. (Reprinted from Vol.
the Davenport Academy of Sciences.) Davenport
Memorial Fund Publication. 1902. 80, o09 pp. in
In 90go Professor Starr traveled among eight tribe
and interesting region of southern Mexico, namely
states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, Vera Cruz, and Hidalgo; t
Isthmus of Tehuantepec; the Huastecs in San Luis
Cruz, and the Mayas of Yucatan, as well as four tribe
last mentioned --the Zoques, Tzotzils, Tzendals, an
present work embodies the results of his observat
interest to the general reader are the author's descrip
costumes and their many dances and festivals. The po
Zapotecs which Professor Starr records are of muc
being accompanied by the musical notation and their
(pages 24-62). Mr Harry Rau's vocabulary of the C
definitions in Spanish and English, shows careful wor
of photographic plates illustrate toys, pottery, ma
textiles, bows, and arrows. A. S. GATSCHET.

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