THE

HE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN FOLK-LORE (Quarterly Editor, Franz
Boas), issued by the American Folk-Lore Society, is designed for the collec-

tion and publication of the folk-lore and mythology of the American Continent.

The subscription price is three dollars per annum.

The American Folk-Lore Society was organized January 4, 1888. The Society

holds annual meetings, at which reports are received and papers read. The yearly

membership fee is three dollars. Members are entitled to receive The Journal of

American Folk-Lore. Subscribers to the Journal, or other persons interested in

the objects of the Society, are eligible to membership, and are requested to address

the Permanent Secretary to that end.

Authors alone are responsible for the contents of their papers.

Officers of the American Folk-Lore Society (1920).

President.-Elsie Clews Parsons, 7 East 76th St., New York,

First Vice-President.-E. C. Hills, 156th St. and Broadway, New York.

Second Vice-President.-J. Walter Fewkes, Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D.C.

Councillors. For three years: R. B. Dixon, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; E. Sapir, Geo-

logical Survey, Ottawa, Can.; A. L. Kroeber, Affiliated Colleges, San Francisco, Cal. For two

years: Phillips Barry, 83 Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass.; A. M. Espinosa, Leland Stanford, Jr.,

University, Palo Alto, Cal.; C.-M. Barbeau, Geological Survey, Ottawa, Can. For one year: J. R.

Swanton, 5526 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C.; E. K. Putnam, Davenport, Io.;

Stith Thompson, 930 North Weber St., Colorado Springs, Col. Past Presidents: Pliny Earle

Goddard, American Museum of Natural History, New York; Robert H. Lowie, American Museum

of Natural History, New York; C.-M. Barbeau (as above). Presidents of Local Branches: Charles

Peabody, Mrs. R. F. A. Hoernlé, D. L. Thomas, Miss Mary A. Owen, Haywood Parker, Reed

Smith, Clyde G. Glasscock, John M. Stone, John Harrington Cox, Alexander Fraser, E.-Z, Massicotte.

(See below for addresses.)

Editor of Journal.-Franz Boas, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.

Associate Editors. - George Lyman Kittredge, Aurelio M. Espinosa, C.-Marius Barbeau, Elsie

Clews Parsons.

Permanent Secretary.-Charles Peabody, Cambridge, Mass.

Treasurer.-Alfred M. Tozzer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Officers of Local and State Branches and Societies.

BOSTON.-President, Charles Peabody; First Vice-President, A. V. Kidder, Andover, Mass.;

Second Vice-President, Helen Leah Reed, Riverbank Court, Cambridge; Secretary, Mrs. J. W.

Courtney, 94 Bay State Road, Boston; Treasurer, Samuel B. Dean, 2 B Newbury St., Boston.

CAMBRIDGE.-President, Mrs. R. F. A. Hoernlé, Cambridge; Vice-President, Mrs. E. F.

Williams, 8 Lowell St., Cambridge; Treasurer, Carleton E. Noyes, 30 Francis Ave., Cambridge;

Secretary, Miss Lucy Drew, Cambridge.

KENTUCKY.-President, D. L. Thomas, Central University, Danville, Ky.; Vice-Presidents, Mrs.

Fannie C. Duncan, Miss Josephine McGill; Secretary, Miss Myra Sanders; Treasurer, John F. Smith,

Berea College, Berea, Ky.

MISSOURI.-President, Miss Mary A. Owen, 9th and Jules Sts., St. Joseph, Mo.; Vice-Presidents,

Miss Lucy R. Laws (Christian College, Columbia, Mo.), Mrs. Eva W. Case (2822 Troost St., Kansas

City, Mo.), Miss Jennie M. A. Jones (Central High School, St. Louis, Mo.), Mrs. Edward Schaaf

(2602 South Grand Ave., St. Louis, Mo.); Secretary, H. M. Belden, University of Missouri, Colum-

bia, Mo.; Treasurer, C. H. Williams, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.; Directors, A. E. Bost-

wick (Public Library, St. Louis, Mo.), Leah R. C. Yoffie (Soldan High School, St. Louis, Mo.).

NORTH CAROLINA.-President, Haywood Parker, Asheville, N.C.; Secretary and Treasurer,

Frank C. Brown, 301 Faculty Ave., Durham, N.C.

NORTH DAKOTA.-Secretary, George F. Will, Bismarck, N.D.

SOUTH CAROLINA.— President, Reed Smith, 1628 Pendleton St., Columbia, S.C.; Vice-President,

Henry C. Davis, 2532 Divine St., Columbia, S.C.; Secretary and Treasurer, F. W. Cappelmann,

Law Range, Columbia, S.C.

TENNESSEE.-Secretary, Henry M. Wiltse, Chattanooga, Tenn.

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Three Games of the Cape Verde Islands. . Elsie Clews Parsons

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

TEXT FIGURES.

Deshilados (designs in Mexican drawn work)

Escobas (cat's-cradle)

PLATES.

I. (a) Eglise de Château-Richer (Montmorency); (b) La "Petite-

ferme," à Saint-Joachim (Montmorency); (c) Château-

Richer, partie nord-est.

II. (a) Le Cap-Chat (Gaspé); (b) Percé (Gaspé); (c) Percé.

III. (a) Sainte-Anne-des-Monts (Gaspé); (b) Chapelle du Petit-

cap (Montmorency); (c) La Petite-tourelle, au Chemin-

neuf (Gaspé).

IV. (a) La "Trou-des-fées," à La Tourelle (Gaspé); (b) Le vieux

moulin, à Saint-Joachim (Montmorency); (c) Le Rocher-

malin, à Notre-Dame-du-Portage (Témiscouata).

V. (a) Voyage de 'foin de mer,' au Petit-cap (Montmorency);

(b) Un vieux cultivateur de Saint-Joachim; (c) Des

cultivateurs partant pour les champs, au même endroit.

VI. (a) Vieille maison à encorbellement, à Saint-André (Kamou-

raska); (b) Maison de cultivateur, à Saint-André; (c)

Vieille maison à l'usage des ouvriers de la Petite-ferme,

à Saint-Joachim (Montmorency).

VII. (a) Maison abandonée, à l'Ancienne-Lorette (Québec); (b)

Maison de pierre des champs, près de Saint-Hyacinthe;

(c) Maison du gardien, au Château-Bellevue, Petit-cap

(Montmorency).

VIII. (a) Grange avec pont et moulin à vent, à Saint-André (Kamou-

raska); (b) Grange avec colonnade, écouilleaux, et sou-

pirail horizontal, au même endroit; (c) Ecurie, à Beau-

port (Québec).

IX. (a) Jeune paysanne, en 'bottes sauvages,' à Saint-Ferréol

(Montmorency); (b) Chez des cultivateurs, à Saint-

Ferréol (Montmorency); (c) Un cabarouet devant une

vieille grange, à Saint-Joachim (Montmorency).

X. (a) Grange centenaire, en cèdre, avec toit en chaume, à Saint-

Joseph (Charlevoix); (b) Lit à rideaux, à Saint-Joachim

(Montmorency); (c) Chaise berceuse avec dessins an-

ciens, à La Tourelle (Gaspé).

XI. (a) Couvre-pied en 'frappé,' avec dessins anciennes, à Saint-

André (Kamouraska); (b) Mme Luc. April, à son rouet,

Notre-Dame-du-Portage (Témiscouata); (c) Rouet à

canelles, à la Petite-ferme, Saint-Augustin (Montmo-

rency).

XII. (a) Attelages de chiens, à Chouayen (Québec); (b) Vieille

villageoise, à Montmorency; (c) Le "père Pape"

(Giroux), un original à l'ancienne mode, à Saint-François

(Beauce).

XIII. (a) M. Alcide Léveillé, ancien cultivateur qui sait beaucoup de

chansons populaires, à Notre-Dame-du-Portage (Témis-

couata); (b) Les trois voisines, à Saint-Ferréol (Mont-

morency); (c) Pierre Dugas et quelques membres de sa

famille, du Ruisseau-à-patates (Gaspé).

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XIV. (a) François Saint-Laurent, conteur et chanteur, de La

Tourelle (Gaspé); (b) Salomon Nadeau, de Notre-Dame-

du-Portage (Témiscouata); (c) Prudent Sioni, conteur,

métis de la tribu des Hurons de Lorette (Québec).

XV. (a) Elizabeth Tremblay, chanteuse et conteuse, des Eboule-

ments (Charlevoix); (b) Isaïe Vallée, pêcheur, du Chemin-

neuf (Gaspé); (c) Luc April, cultivateur qui sait des

chansons populaires, à Notre-Dame-du-Portage (Témis-

couata); (d) Charles Barbeau, de qui nous avons recueilli

des traditions populaires.

Page 317, footnote, for on dit read ou dit.

Page 346, in heading, for polulaires, read populaires.

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