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Show OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. LXI closely predicted. On the other hand, knowing his products, much can be safely predicated of his environment and past stages of development. Mr. Holmes, by his artistic analysis and philosophic classification, has set forth the laws of this branch of research more clearly and more completel) T than any other student of the subject. Though some of his propositions are not presented by him as entirely original, even those are enforced by example and made intelligible by illustration, so as to be substantially novel to most readers. Indeed, the general result of his studies as expressed differs widely from the current conservative theories. A STUDY OF PUEBLO POTTERY, AS ILLUSTRATIVE OF ZUSl CULTURE GROWTH, BY FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING. Mr. Cushing's paper, while on the same general subject as that of Mr. Holmes first above mentioned, differs from the latter in that it presents additional evidence of a different kind in support of the propositions deduced which are common to both writers. Mr. Holmes treats of the objects on which his study is based wholly from the standpoint of an archaeologist Mr. Cushing has had and used the opportunity to examine ety-mologically the names of the objects which have been retained, even when their forms and uses have been modified, and also to observe the minute processes of their present manufacture. By noticing the traces in the language of the Zufli and their continued employment of some archaic and apparently objectless methods, only to be explained through their traditions and mythology, the evolutionary history of form and ornament among them is set forth with surprising completeness. The author first explains the effect upon the Zufii art of their peculiar habitat, not only in the requirements of their semi-desert region, but in the necessary tendency towards rectangular forms in their primitive architecture. The logical inductions made by Mr. Holmes from his point of examination, as before explained, are confirmed by the additional considerations presented by Mr. Cushing; in particular, that the general effect of gourd forms suggested basket |
