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cross-hatched or mixed directions ; 2 are black and undecorated ; 2 are dark 

 violet and undecorated ; 60 have the same ground color as the painted, and of 

 these 17 arc decorated with incised Hues, i with ornamentation in relief, and 

 42 are plain. In addition to these potteries, there are also two broken pieces of 

 finely made black stone rings, and a small piece of the shaft of a human ulna. 



3. Pottery Sherds from Hsi-yin Ts'un. 



The total number is 86. Of these, 14 are painted. Of the painted, 7 have 

 rims — 3 bent and 4 plain. Triangles, straight lines and big dots are the 

 chief decorative patterns. They are often combined. Of the unpainted, 15 are 

 gray or black in color and 57 are red or dark brown. Of the gray or black, 

 II have incised lines and 4 arc plain. Of the red, 34 are incised and 2^ are plain. 

 One complete, rather ill-shaped cup is found in this collection. It is dark gray 

 in color and not uniformly fired. The diameter of the rim varies from 5.5 

 cm. to 5.9 cm. ; the height is 5.3 cm. There are 7 ridges at the bottom with 7 

 finger depressions between the ridges. 



4. Votive stclcc seen in An-i Hsien. 



In the list of ancient votive stcUc given to me by the magistrate, there 

 are 41 dated previous to the T'ang Dynasty. Of these, 28 have been moved to 

 Fang-kung-tz'ii, the museum in the magistrate's yamcn. Twenty others arc 

 dated in T'ang and Sung, the latest date corresponding with A. D. iioi. 



Cm Li, 



J'rccr inillcry of Art li.vpcifilioii lu China. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK IN ALASKA 



Under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Dr. AleS 

 Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology, U. S. National Museum, 

 made, during the spring and summer of 1926, a comprehensive 

 survey of anthropological and archeological matters in Alaska.^ The 



^ During the extended trip briefly outlined above the writer has received 

 many courtesies and much help for which he wishes hereby to offer once more 

 his grateful and hearty acknowledgments. It will be impossible to specially 

 mention all who aided in the work, but in the first place thanks are due to 

 Governor George A. Parks of Alaska; Mr. Harry G. Watson, his Secretary; 

 Mr. Karl Thiele, Secretary for Alaska ; Judge James Wickersham, formerly 

 Delegate from Alaska ; to Father A. F. Kasheroff, Curator of the Territorial 

 Museum and Library of Juneau ; Dr. Wm. Chase of Cordova ; Mr. Noel W. 

 Smith, General Manager, Government Railroad of Alaska ; Mr. B. B. Mozee, 

 Indian Supervisor, and Dr. J. A. Romig, of Anchorage ; to Professor C. E. Bun- 

 nell, President Alaska Agriculture College at Fairbanks ; to Mr. and Mrs. Ful- 

 lerton, ^Missionaries at Tanana ; to the Rev. J. W. Chapman at Anvik ; to Father 

 Jette, at Holy Cross ; to ^Nlr. C. Betsch at Russian Mission and to Messrs. Frank 

 Tucker and E. C. Gurtler, near the Mission ; to Mr. Frank P. Williams of St. 

 Michaels ; to Judge G. J. Lomen and his very good sons and daughter at Nome ; 

 to the Rev. Doctor Baldwin, Fathers La Fortune and Post, and Capt. Ross, 

 U. S. Coast Guard, at Nome; to Mr. Elmer Rydeem, merchant at Nome; to 

 C. S. Cochran, the Captain of the " Bear," and his ofificers, particularly Mr. H. 

 Berg, his excellent lioatswain ; to the Rev. F. W^ Goodman and Mr. La Voy at 



