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search of data for the sixth painting, the Nootka Indians had returned 
from fishing and hop-picking. Villages were no longer deserted, and 
activity showed on all sides. Along the shores canoes with swan-like 
barbed prows and straight high sterns were being hewn. At Clayoquot 
on the 

I secured the locality, color and facts for a whaling picture, 
brilliant sandy beach the whalers had returned from a successful hunt, 
while the inhabitants of the village welcomed a dignified old chief in his 
ceremonial costume. 
Briefly, then, I am trying to show in this series of mural paintings 
that the trading among the tribes of the northwestern coast was mainly 
through the products of their own industry. The Tlingit exchanged 
their Chileat blankets for Haida canoes. ‘The Haida traded their 
‘anoes for the eulichon grease of the T’simshian. ‘The Bella-Coola who 
were the bread makers exchanged their bread with neighboring tribes. 
Thus through all the coast tribes we find distribution of industrial 
products going on, and to-day the results of this commerce are evident, 
for in the extreme south one finds the work of the tribe living farthest 
north, and vice versa. 
Witios GLAWunOR: 
A COMPLETE PTERODACTYL SKELETON. 
HE Museum has recently acquired through exchange with the 
Munich Paleontological Museum a complete skeleton of a 
small Pterodactyl of the Jurassic Period. This beautiful little 
specimen is from the lithographic limestone quarries of Solenhofen in 
Bavaria and is one of the most perfect specimens of its kind ever found. 
The Munich Museum has a unique series of these rare fossils from these 
quarries and parted with this one in exchange for a complete fore and 
hind limb of Brontosaurus which we were able to get together out of the 
great collections obtained from Bone Cabin Quarry. ‘The Solenhofen 
specimen is exhibited in a table case in the Dinosaur Hall, together with 
specimens of the much larger but less perfectly preserved Pterodactyls 
found in the chalk beds of western Kansas. 
The Pterodactyl (from the Greek zrepoév, wing, and daxrvdos, finger) 
was a flying reptile named from the fact that the bones of one finger of 
