The Journal of American Folk-lore. Vol. VI.—July-September, 1893.—No. XXII.

One day these little Indians found a great hollow log lying on the ground. One of them said, “Maybe there is a _Ta-hone-tah-na-ken_ [rabbit] or a _Hi-sen_ [red squirrel] in this...

Albert Cusick told me his early experiences at two of these feasts, which will illustrate one prominent feature which I have mentioned. On one occasion the boys saw that there w...

which measured nearly four inches across the extended wings. The color and size suggest a moth rather than a butterfly, do they not? Whatever it was, it was sufficiently rare to...

The Blackfoot Indian Confederacy comprises the Piegan, Blood, and Blackfoot tribes. Each tribe is located on its own reservation, and the three reservations are within the provi...

The women wore a skin belted in at the waist, making a skirt of one part, and leaving the other long enough to cover the back and to draw over the head, and the last woman put i...

These are followed by games of Lots, a class of games extremely common among the North American Indians. The Haida and other tribes of the northwest coast play with sticks which...

FOLK-LORE AT THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.—If the Anthropological Building has been late in completion, the display is now most interesting. The value and curiosity of the archæolog...

“The Cries of London,” sixty-two in number, with wood-cuts, were printed in 1799. Mr. A. Certeux, having come across this rare little work in Switzerland, has reprinted it with...

The Japanese call the cards which are now current in Japan by the name of _Karuta_, a word evidently derived from the Portuguese _carta_. Those commonly used by gamblers, a pack...

19. =Am Urquell.= (Lunden, Holstein; ed. by F. S. Krauss, Vienna.) Vol. IV. No. 4, 1893. Geister in Katzengestalt. A. WIEDEMANN.—Über die Bedeutung des Herdes. (Continued in No....