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Show i58o] / CUTHORITIES 289 Traditions ( 1898); and J. Mooney " Myths of the Cherokee M ( Bureau of Ethnology, Nineteenth Annual Report, 1900). Descriptions of ceremonials will be found in the works noted under special regions and in the publications of the Bureau of Ethnology, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Field- Columbian Museum. The literature is too extensive to be cited in detail. On the practices of shamans, J. G. Bourke, " Medicine- Men of the Apache " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Ninth Annual Report, 1892), will be found instructive; and on customs connected with death and burial, H. C. Yarrow, Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs among the North American Indians ( 1880), and " A Further Contribution to the Study of Mortuary Customs" ( Bureau of Ethnology, First Annual Report, 1881) should be consulted. INDIAN ART There is no general review of Indian art. The best special studies are: F. W. Putnam, " Conventionalism in Ancient American Art" ( Essex Institution, Bulletin, 1886); W. H. Holmes, " Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art " ( Bureau of Ethnology, Fourth Annual Report, 1886)," Study of Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament" ( Bureau of Ethnology, Sixth Annual Report, 1888), also other papers by the same author in the Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology; F. Boas, " Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast" ( American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin, IX., 1897); A. L. Kroeber, " Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho" ( American Anthropologist, III., 308, 1901). |