Note 991 — Chapter III

Morgan in this, his last work, condenses in his first chapter those which were numbered 1 to 4 in his Ancient Society, and in succeeding sections he discusses the laws of hospitality, communism, usages of land and food, and the houses of the northern tribes, of those of New Mexico, San Juan River, the moundbuilders, the Aztecs, and those in Yucatan and Central America. Among these he finds three distinct ethnical stages, as shown in the northern Indian, higher in the sedentary tribes of New Mexico, and highest among those of Mexico and Central America. S. F. Haven commemorated Morgan’s death in the Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Apr., 1880.