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in the sockets, the projecting part measuring 6 feet 7 inches. The 
skeleton is so nearly complete that almost no restoration or replacement 
has proved necessary. 
The following careful measurements will be of interest: 
Feet. Meters. 
Length, base of tusks to drop of tail. , DA iin 4255 
Height to top of spines of back at the shoulders 9 ft. 2in. — 2.80 
Tusks: Length of right tusk, on outside curve 8 ft. 6in. — 2.59 
Length of tusk exposed. ; 6ft. 8in. 2.03 
Thigh bones: Length of right. 3 ft.’ 5 ino Ge 
Length of left ; 3 ft. 65in. 1.03 
Pelvis, or innominate bones, width of . 3 6 ft. 1.83 
The Mastodon was the contemporary of the Mammoth in North 
America during Pleistocene or early and middle Quaternary time. Com- 
parison of this specimen with the fine skeleton of the Mammoth, Elephas 
columbi, standing near shows the likenesses and the points of difference 
between the two animals. The Mastodon was generally longer, some- 
what lower and more massive than the Mammoth. ‘The most easily 
recognized difference lies in the teeth, those of the Mammoth showing 
low narrow transverse ridges, while those of the Mastodon show strong 
cusps. 
A BLACKFOOT LODGE, OR TEPEE. 
——,) 2 HE illustration on page 93 shows the lodge, or tepee, of 
rat ¥ 2, a ‘medicine man” of the Otter clan of the Blackfoot 
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Indians of Montana which has been installed in the 
Hall of North American Indans, No. 102 of the ground 
floor of the Museum. ‘The lodge was obtained on a 
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Museum expedition in the field season of 1903 by Dr. 
Clark Wissler, Curator of Ethnology, who is a regularly adopted mem- 
ber of the Blackfoot tribe. ‘The decorations on the outside of the lodge 
represent the otter (the insignia of the family or clan), together with 
mountains (the triangular points) and stars (the white circles), while 
the black and red at the top are the signs of night and day. 
The arrangement of the interior is such as to indicate the family 
life of the medicine man. The woman wears a typical Blackfoot cos- 
tume and is engaged in performing ordinary home duties. Behind the 
