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Columbia, by Franz Boas, forms the first 

 part of Volume II of the Memoirs of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. The 

 Jesup expedition has been organized under 

 the patronage of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, presi- 

 dent of the museum, and under the direction 

 of that institution, to study what relations 

 may exist or may have existed between the 

 natives of the northwest coasts of America 

 and the peoples of the neighboring Asiatic 

 coasts. The general likeness, in the midst 

 of their special minor diversities, of all the 

 Indians of the American continent points to 

 an ultimately common origin for them, while 

 the differences indicate that this may not 

 have been precisely identical in time and 

 place, and seem to have required a very long 

 time for their development and establish- 

 ment. The purpose of the expedition is to 



collect all the information that can be ob 

 tained by its method of exploration con- 

 tributing to this end. The present contribu- 

 tion embodies the fruits of a study of the 

 arts, as applied to facial decoration, of the 

 Thompson River Indians, the Chilcotin, the 

 Bella Coola, the Kakiutl, and the Nootka. 

 This art is almost exclusively based on ani- 

 mal motives, is highly conventionalized, and 

 has the unique peculiarity of seeking to fit 

 the whole figure of the animal to the surface 

 on which it is applied ; whence it presents 

 some curious effects. In this effort to illus- 

 trate the principles of its conventionalism 

 Dr. Boas has selected as the most difficult 

 and complicated surface the human face, of 

 which he gives in six plates eighty-eight 

 figures of as many different styles of decora- 

 tion. 



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