Seler

Sekani, the, 361 sq., and map, pp. 334-5 Sekhwans, the, 249 Seki-Manzi, the, 261 Seler, E., 389 Seligman, B. Z., 76 n.,

Seler, lying on a substructure of stones in the centre of an open space, presumably a market place, definitely proves that the design was intended to be placed in a horizontal position.

Besides the realism of the native drawing there can be no doubt that the image of a sprouting maize-seed is the most expressive and appropriate accompaniment to the symbol of fertilizing rain, on an earth-symbol, and I am unable to understand how Drs. Cyrus Thomas, Seler, Schellhas and Brinton could have overlooked the realism in this image of a sprouting seed, and concluded that it was a portrayal of “fermented liquor trickling downward,” a “nose-ornament,” or a “twisted lock of hair,” “a cork-screw curl.”

Dr. E. Seler, of Berlin, published an article asserting that this was an error, and devoid of native authority.

See Dr. Seler’s able discussion of the subject in the Compte-Rendu of the Seventh International Congress of Americanists, p.