EDITORIAL 



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I' the Xovemljer nieetiii!^" of this Acar'.einy. Professor Hector 



Ahidt, Curator of the South West Mtiseum, related to a 



large and intensely interested audience the story of his excava- 

 tions upon Santa Catalina and other Islands, resulting in the 

 discovery of heretofore unknown phases of the Ethnology of 

 the ancient dwellers of the Channel Islands. 



His gra])hic account of some of his discoveries, ])resented in 

 this liulletin, will rittract the consideration of all, and especially 

 c,f those whose attention has heen called to the rather roman- 

 tic habitat : and perhap^s a domestic modus rnTiidi of those ocean 

 dwellers who were undoubtedly a iJeojile more warlike and of a 

 higher order of intelligence than their neighbors on the adjoin- 

 ing main land. 



The half-tone frontis-piece herein, is made from a photo- 

 graph taken of the remains as they were exhumed from their 

 grave upon San Nicolas Island. 



Dr. F. M. Palmer of Los Angeles, whose paper in otir 

 Bulletin of January, 1909. attracted so great attention to the 

 study of the Indian tribes of the Pacific coast regions, passed his 

 summer vacations during many years upon these Islands, and 

 the result of his labors is an accumtilation of matter, illustrating 

 that ancient ethnology which has no equal in the world. The 

 Smithsonian Institution tried in vain to obtain from him certain 

 of the products of his excavations, which were pronounced 

 absolutely unicpie by the Scientific world : But, like, the dis- 

 coveries of La lirea Rancho, it was considered that these evi- 

 dences of a civilization, sui generis, should be retained in the 

 land of their home, and the most tempting offers were declined. 



Thev are now safely deposited in the South-West Museum, 



