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posed of radials, practically horizontal in position, plus the 

 proximale. 



In Holopus the same line of specialization has apparently been 

 followed further; the column and the basals have disappeared, 

 and the attachment is by means of the radials, which in the coma- 

 tulids dominated the base. It is conceivable that the very 

 young Holopus is essentially like a short-stemmed comatulid 

 in which the radials, growing very rapidly, form a cylindrical 

 ring with the basals, spread outward until they all lie in the same 

 plane, closing the proximal end, and that this ring becomes at- 

 tached by its lower border to the object upon which the larva 

 rests. 



ANTHROPOLOGY.— i4 second archeological note.^ ' Truman 

 MiCHEi/SON, Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Nearly three years ago I showed in this Journai^^ that the 

 provenience of the gray sandstone pipe discussed by Squier 

 and Davis in their Ancient monuments of the Mississippi Valley, 

 pages 249 and 250, must be the upper Mississippi region near 

 the Rock River because the original of the pipe figured there 

 is either the same as that of the Sauk pipe shown on plate 2 

 at the end of volume 2 of Beltrami's Pilgrimage, or it belongs 

 to the same culture. It will be recalled that previously there was 

 uncertainty as to the provenience of this pipe. I now find that the 

 lowest of the three pipes shown on the plate facing page 279 of 

 Em. Domenech's Voyage pittoresque, said to be from Tennessee, 

 is also of the same culture; indeed it is almost impossible not to 

 believe that the same artist fashioned all three pipes, so great is 

 their likeness. 



^ Published with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 2 6: 146. 1916. 



