obtained in response a rendering of the text which literally meant: “The mother of Sisera looked through an eel-pot.” It was the only kind of wicker-work of which the Indian had any knowledge. Evidences of an exceptional development of the æsthetic faculty among the nations of the New World have already been noted; but the Iroquois cannot be included among those specially noticeable for their imitative powers, or in other ways furnishing evidence of any highly developed artistic faculty. They cannot compare in this respect with the Zuñi or others of the Pueblo Indians, among whom the arts of long-settled agricultural communities have been developed for purposes of ornament as well as utility; nor is their inferiority less questionable when we compare them with some of the tribes of the north-west coast and the neighbouring islands. Their languages confirm this; for while, as Mr. Cushing has shown, the Zuñi language possesses many words relating to art-processes, the Iroquois and Algonkin dialects supply such terms for the most part only in descriptive holophrasms, and not in primitive roots. In Iroquois, the word _kar_ or _kare_ signifies “to paint” or “draw.” The initial _k_ in Iroquois words is usually not radical, and so rarely enters into composite terms. The root of _kar_, is _ar_ or _are_, which added to _kaiata_, or _oiata_, “living thing, person, body,” makes _kaiatare_, “image” or “likeness,” _i.e._ “pictured body,” or as a verb “to paint” or “depict anything.” To this is added the verbal suffix _ta_ or _tha_, which occasionally becomes _stha_, and has different meanings, causative and instrumental. The Mohawk supplies such words and terms of art as _ahyeyatonh_, “to grave”; _rahyatonhs_, “an engraver”; _ahyekonteke_, “to paint”; _rakonteks_, “a painter”; _s’hakoyatarha_, “an artist”; _rahkaratahkwas_, “a carver”; _rateanakerahtha_, “a modeller,” or “one who models figures in clay.” In the Iroquois version of the Gospel of St. John, chap. viii. verse 6 reads thus: _Nok tanon ne Iesos wathastsake ehtake nok rasnonsake_ (more correctly, _rasnonkenh_) _warate wahiaton onwentsiake_, lit. “But instead Jesus bent low and with hand used, wrote,” or “engraved, on the earth.” The version of the second commandment in the Mohawk Prayer-Book affords another illustration, in the holophrasm _asadatyaghdoenihseroenyea_. It is compounded of _ahsonniyon_, “make”; _ahsadadonnyen_, “to make for yourself”; _kayadonnihsera_, “an image” or “doll.” _Toghsa asadatyaghdoenihseroenyea, shekonh othenouh taoesakyatayerea nene enekea karouhyakouh, neteas eghtake oughweatsyakonh_, etc., lit. “Do not make an image or idol for yourself, even anything like above in the sky, nor below in the earth,” etc.