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    • Ethnology in America - Nature

      Nature· 18 hours ago

      Bartram, which was written in 1789, entitled “Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians,” being replies to a series of ethnological questions prepared by Dr. B. S. Barton, vice-president ...

    • Scalping - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      MR. CHARLES C. ABBOTT, in NATURE, vol. xii. p. 369, wishes to learn what other men, if any, besides the North American Indians, have the practice of scalping among them. The question is answered ...

    • Indians of the South-Eastern United States - Nature

      Nature· 21 hours ago

      This is illustrated by the arrangement of Mr. Swanton's massive work (Smithsonian Institution: Bur. 2.75 dollars), in which a brief, purely historical sketch of each individual tribe ...

    • Societies and Academies. - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      Two new species of grasses are described, (1) Chloris quinquesetica, collected by Mr. G. A. Gammie, and subsequently by the author, from Bassein, and (2) Sporobolus scabrifolius, collected by ...

    • Research Items - Nature

      Nature· 15 hours ago

      AMERICAN INDIAN Music.—Miss Frances Densmore, the well-known student of the music of the American Indian, and author of a number of monographs on the music of specific tribes, has published ...