CONTENTS. XI 



PART II. 



Papers Describing and Illustrating Collections in the U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Page. 



1. Tlie Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. 



By Franz Boas 311 



2. The Graphic Art of the Eskimos. By Walter James Hoffman 739 



3. Notes on the Geology and Natural History of the Peninsula of Lower 



California. By George P. Merrill 909 



4. The Mineralogical Collections in the U. S. National Museum. By "Wirt 



Tassin 995 



5. The Tongues of Birds. By Frederic A. Lucas 1001 



0. The Ontonagon Copper Bowlder in the U. S. National Museum. By 



Charles Moore 1021 



7. Taxidermical Methods in the Leyden Museum, Holland. By R. W. Shu- 



feldt 1031 



8. The Antiquity of the Red Race in America. By Thomas Wilson 10.39 



