[1909] For the later views in general see Clavigero, Tylor, Brasseur (Nations Civil., i. 253), Prescott (i. 62), Bancroft (iii. 248, 263; v. 24, 200, 255, 257), and Short (267, 274).
[1910] The god Paynal was a sort of deputy war-god. See H. H. Bancroft’s Native Races.
[1911] Cf. references in Peabody Mus. Rept., ii. 571; Short, p. 206.
[1912] Cf. Relacion de las ceremonias y Ritos de Michoacan, a manuscript in the library of Congress, of which there is a copy in Madrid, which is printed in the Coleccion de doc. ined. para la hist. de España, liii.
[1913] For further modern treatment see Schultz-Sellack’s “Die Amerikanischen Götter der vier Weltgegenden und ihre Tempel in Palenque” in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, xi.(1879); Brasseur’s Landa, p. lx; Ancona’s Yucatan (i. ch. 10); Powell’s First Report Bureau of Ethnology; for sacrifices, Nadaillac (p. 266); and for festivals and priestly service, Bancroft (ii. 689). For Yucatan folk-lore, see Brinton in Folk-lore Journal (vol. i. for 1883).
[1914] First series: vol. iv., W. Sargent on articles from an old grave at Cincinnati, exhumed in 1794; vol. v., G. Turner on the same; vol. vi., W. Dunbar on the Indian sign language; J. Madison on remains of fortifications in the west; B. S. Barton on affinities of Indian words. New series: vol. i., H. H. Brackenridge on Indian populations and tumuli; C. W. Short on an Indian fort near Lexington, Ky.; vol. iii., D. Zeisberger on a Delaware grammar; vol. iv., J. Heckewelder on Delaware names, etc.
[1915] It celebrated its centennial in 1880, when an impromptu address was delivered by R. C. Winthrop, which is printed by this society, and is also contained, with a statement of the occasion of it, in his Speeches and Addresses, 1878-1886. For a record of the interest in archæological studies about 1790, see Reports of the American Philosophical Society, xxii. no. 119.
[1916] First series: vol. i., S. H. Parsons on discoveries in the western country; vol. iii., E. A. Kendall and J. Davis on an examination of the much controverted inscription of the so-called Dighton Rock; E. Stiles on an Indian idol. New series: vol. i., Rasle’s Abenaki dictionary; vol. v., W. Sargent’s plan of the Marietta mounds, etc.
[1917] This society published the original edition of S. G. Morton’s Inquiry into the distinctive characteristics of the aboriginal race of America (2d ed., Philadelphia, 1844), which glances at their moral and intellectual character, their habits of interment, their maritime enterprise, and their physical condition.
[1918] Field’s Ind. Bibliog., no. 1564.