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lower part of the figure, as will be seen in the fully projected design, 

 Fig. 105. The neck has two indistinct bands of triangular dentate 

 figures apparently painted in the dark color. The bottom is flattish 

 and without the coating of light clay. Both paste and slip can be 

 readily scratched with the finger nail. This vase was found in 

 Franklin county, Alabama, near the Mississippi line, and is one 

 of the first pieces acquired by the Academy. 



In concluding this paper, I wish only to add that it has not been 

 my ambition to solve any of the great questions usually uppermost 

 in the minds of the theorist and the ethnologist — questions of time, 

 race, and migrations. Regarding all the remains — the facts — of 

 art as links in the great chain of progress, each having an intimate 

 relation with every other fact, I have simply undertaken to classify 

 them and to assign them to their proper places in the scheme of 

 culture, just as the naturalist has learned to treat the elements of 

 biologic science. 



To him who, in a small way even, realizes the truth that all things 

 in art as well as in nature are comprehended in the great scheme of 

 evolution, and therefore equally worthy of the closest study, no 

 apology is needed for the publication of the minutest details of art. 



Design on a vase from Arkansas. 



[The cuts used in this paper form part of a series jMepared for the Fourth An- 

 nual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.] 



