13(1 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



stone, fragment of ;i metate, 5 clay vessels, 90 fragments of pottery, 

 22 small grotesque clay figures (human form), 15 ornamental clay beads, 



5 obsidian flakes, a shell ornament, an animal tooth, a fragment of 

 human jaw with teeth (child), a stone ax, and a quantity of broken 

 pottery (not counted); one hundred and forty-nine specimens. From 

 Mr. Palmer's notes concerning this collection the following' extracts are 

 taken: "In a secluded cove of the harbor of Manzanillo is an embank 

 ment several feet above high tide, upon which is a thicket of bushes and 

 trees. Removing these and by digging, remains of an Indian village 

 site containing stone implements, pottery, etc., are discovered. Much 

 excavating has been done, and some of the embankment from time to 

 time has crumbled down, tending to still more break the pottery. It 

 would seem that at the time of its abandonment (probably during the 

 Spanish conquest) much of the material was broken and destroyed, as 

 none of the stone mortars and metates are complete." With this acces- 

 sion were also received Hi fragments of clay figures (mostly human 

 form), from ancient house sites near the village of Almeria, State of 

 Colima, Mexico, 30 miles east of Manzanillo. Mr. Palmer says: "A 

 railroad cut revealed the house sites. The surface in places shows 

 rocks of different forms and sizes placed in rude circles. The Indians 

 who once lived here were removed by force, and that would account 

 for the fragmentary condition of most of the objects found." 



In addition to the above-mentioned objects was sent a human skele- 

 ton* with painted bones, from a cave on the island of Espiritu Santo, 

 near the harbor of La Paz, Lower California. 



From the Royal Zoological Museum, Florence, Italy, through Prof. 

 Henry H.Giglioli: Twenty-five worked flint flakes, a terracotta ball, 

 a terracotta fusaiole of unusual shape, 2 earthenware vases, a hoar's 

 tusk, and a point of roebuck's horn, from the cave of Lazzaro, Rosilini, 

 near Modica, Sicily (see Bull. Paletnologia Ital. vn, 1892); bone 

 breccia with worked hints imbedded, from cavern of Les Eyzies, Dor- 

 dogne, France, Lartet »x Christy; (> fragments of subfossil bones and 

 2 teeth of equus and 10 worked flint knives and scrapers from a 

 cave on the island of Levanzo ( Egades), \Y. Sicily — discovered by 

 Prof. II. H. Giglioli, August i'!>. 1890; 7 flint knives and scrapers 

 and two arrowheads, from Sartiano, Siena, Italy; 2 rliut knives, a 

 scraper, and 13 arrowheads, collected in the vicinity of Florence, 

 Italy; portion of a Hint borer, found at the Thermae of Caracalla, 

 Rome, Italy; 3 casts in wax of beautiful Hint implements (knife, ar- 

 rowhead, and a dagger, or spearhead), from an Etruscan tomb at Sa- 

 turnia, Tuscan Maremma.t The originals are in the Museum of Anthro- 



The skeleton was presented to me [Mr. Palmer] by Gaston Vevis. esq., of La I'az. 

 Nothing was reported to have been found with the hones. (Ace. 21(1(10. | 



IThe question " Whence came the Etruscans" is probably the foundation of the 

 oldest dispute or discussion known to history, it began in the fifth century B. ('., be- 

 tween Herodotus and 1 >ion\sins of Haliearnassus. and continued until the nineteenth 



