TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Copper 



Bone and Horn 



Shells 



Clay . 



Wood 



Supplement . 



Appendix I. . 



The Aboriginal Modes of Hafting Stone and Bone Implements 

 Appendix II. ....... 



System adopted in Arranging the Smithsonian Collection illustrative 

 North American Ethnology ..... 



I. Man, Objects relating to .... . 



II. Culture, Objects relating to . 

 Index ........ 



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ARTICLE V. (331.) The Palenque Tablet in the United States National Museum, 

 Washington, D. C. By Charles Rau. Published November, 1879. 

 4to. pp. -91. Two plates, thirty-nine wood-cuts. 

 Chapter I. History of the Palenque Tablet .... 1 



Chapter II. Explorations of Palenque ..... 5 



Chapter III. The Temple of the Cross ..... 15 



Chapter IY. The Group of the Cross . . . .31 



Chapter Y. Aboriginal Writings in Mexico, Yucatan, and Central Ame- 

 rica ....... 47 



Appendix: Notes on the Ruins of Yucatan and Central America . . 65 



ARTICLE YI. (318.) On the Remains of Later Pre-historic Man obtained from 

 Caves in the Catherina Archipelago, Alaska Territory, and 

 especially from the Caves of the Aleutian Islands. By W. il. 

 Dall. Published January, 1876. 4to. pp. 44. Ten plates. 



