Elsie Clews Parsons

“ Let us determine that what we do leave shall be as well pre- served as the remains of the trilobites of fifty million years ago, and that our mode of preservation shall contain less of accident and more of thoughtful design. Looking forward, can we see this as a portion of our duty to the future? If we can, let us set about the fulfilment of our duty, as becomes true Americans. ”

“ Four times the rabbits are run out from the surrounded areas, four times before the hunt turns into a secular and comparatively individualistic activity.
The hunt over, the Chakwena retires to one of the kewitsine or sacred club-houses, [3] where for four days she lies in on a warmed-up sand-bed as would a woman in her confinement, and where she is taken care of by the woman who expects by this rite of imitative magic to conceive the offspring she desires. ”

“ Our modes of recording history and noteworthy events seem to be at the height of perfection, and the preservation of photographs, moving-picture films, as well as the voices of our leading national figures is to add to the future an untold wealth of interest in us and what we have done, together with a better under- standing. ”

“ It is true that in time of war, or under threat of ruin by fire, earthquake, glacier or volcano, we could remove a portion of our works of art, our relics of state, and our rarest collections to some safer quarter of the country. ”

“ To paraphrase a well-known quotation, we can not predict in what century the "New Zealander will gaze on the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge.** Nor can we say at what moment the hand of the invader will be stretched out to destroy or snatch away our treasures. ”

“ Into the disciplinary effect of these terrifying personages we need not go, noting only that four times they have to advance upon a house before its adult inmates stop beating upon their pans and drums to pretend to scare them away.
Into Zuñi marriage practises i. e., into a first marriage I have found no numeral obtrusion, but here my observations are by no means final. In the marriage of the widowed the favorite number does occur. Early in the morning after the couple has first slept together the second spouse gives to the remarried one something of value. ”

“ The initiated, i. e., all the men and some of the women, plant plumes every moon and on many other ceremonial occasions. ↑ The death trip takes this time among many American tribes. (Brinton, p. 90.) ↑ Zuñi who have represented the koko live after death in a hill-side, in a four-roomed dwelling. To the Sacred Lake southwest of Zuñi a quadrennial ceremonial journey is made. ↑ If they hear sounds of the river roaring or of an owl hooting or of lips smacking or of horse hoofs, it is well. To hear nothing is not well. ”

“ Our review of de- structive agents, noting what they have done and still may do, as well as the consideration of the amount of resistance to these agents pos- sessed by our present materials, causes us to confront the problem with some degree of anzieiy, since no one of the materials known to man will serve for all the requirements of the problem^s solution. ”