[Transcriber's Note: This project is best displayed in html or ebook readers due to the spacing issues in tables caused by unicode characters. W J McGee apparently preferrred his initials without periods. The initials W J are retained as scanned. The letter "q" does not have a superscript character in unicode. Superscripts with a "q" are formatted with a caret and any additional superscript characters in braces in the text version. Pages 129-end are asterisked in the original text because they overlap the pagination of the following article.] THE SERI INDIANS BY W J McGEE Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 1—344* CONTENTS Page Introduction 9 Salient features 9 Recent explorations and surveys 12 Acknowledgments 20 Habitat 22 Location and area 22 Physical characteristics 22 Flora 31 Fauna 36 Local features 39 Summary history 51 Tribal features 123 Definition and nomenclature 123 External relations 130 Population 134 Somatic characters 136 Demotic characters 164 Symbolism and decoration 164 Face-painting 164 Decoration in general 169 The significance of decoration 176 Industries and industrial products 180 Food and food-getting 180 Navigation 215 Habitations 221 Appareling 224 Tools and their uses 232 Warfare 254 Nascent industrial development 265