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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



Hrdlicka, Ales — Continued. 



lations of Eastern Asia, and 

 thus that the American Indian 

 could not have been derived ex- 

 cept from this source ; and that 

 the peopling of America by the 

 Indian could not be of very 

 ancient date. 



The old white Americans. 



Proc. 10th Int. Cong. 

 Americanists 

 (1915), Washing- 

 ton, 1917, pp. 582- 

 601. 

 Preliminary report on the 

 writer's studies on native Amer- 

 icans of an American ancestry 

 of at least three generations. 

 It gives in brief the physical 

 characteristics of the first one 

 hundred men and one hundred 

 women examined, and shows to 

 what extent in various features 

 an approach has already taken 

 place toward the formation of a 

 distinct American type. 



. The vanishing Indian. 



Science (n. s.), 46, No. 

 1185, Sept. 14, 

 1917, pp. 266, 267. 

 Refers briefly to a trip in 

 1917 to the Shawnee and Kieka- 

 poo Indians of Oklahoma. It 

 points out that while the tribes 

 themselves are not decreasing, 

 and may in fact be on the in- 

 crease, the full bloods of the 

 tribes are either already extinct 

 (Kickapoo) or near the point 

 of extinction (Shawnee). 

 Judd, Neil M. Notes on certain pre- 

 historic habitations in western Utah. 

 Proc. 19th Int. Cong. 

 Americanists 

 .(1915), Washington, 

 1917, pp. 119-124, 

 1 fig. 

 Describes three types of pre- 

 historic habitations in western 



Judd, Neil M. — Continued. 



Utah, namely : Shelters of logs, 

 grass, and clay like the Navaho 

 hogan, at Willard and Beaver 

 City, at the latter place associ- 

 ated with massive adobe dwell- 

 ings ; small, single room, de- 

 tached houses at Paragonah, 

 Utah ; ajd stone wall houses 

 with a kiva in a cave near 

 Kanab, Utah. It is suggested 

 on account of uniformity of arti- 

 facts that there is a relation- 

 ship between the three types of 

 dwellings, as well as a relation- 

 ship to the pre-pueblo struc- 

 tures south and east of the 

 Colorado River. An interesting 

 case of superposition was ob- 

 served in the Beaver City ruin, 

 where four levels of occupancy 

 were disclosed but not differen- 

 tiated by artifacts. 



Means, Philip Ainsworth. Realism 

 in the art of ancient Peru. 



Art and Arch., 6 No. 

 5, Nov., 1917, pp. 

 235-246, figs. 1-18. 

 Both in plastic and painted 

 embellishment the potters' art 

 of the ancient coast dwellers 

 of Peru embodied realistic natu- 

 ral forms and is thus of pe- 

 culiar value to the anthropolo- 

 gist who can deduce therefrom 

 interesting details regarding the 

 life and customs of the people. 

 This realism diminishes gradu- 

 ally as we pass to the south 

 into the Nasca region, where 

 color prevails over plastic meth- 

 ods as a means of embellish- 

 ment. In the art of Tiahua- 

 naco (just south of Lake Ti- 

 ticaca) realism is but slightly 

 developed, and it is scarcely 

 present at all in Inca art, save 

 as an intrusive element de- 

 rived from the coast peoples. 



HISTORY. 



Rathbun, Richard. The Columbian 

 Institute for the promotion of arts 

 and sciences. 



Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 101, Oct. 18, 1917, 

 pp. i-iii, 1-85. 

 Historical account of a Wash- 

 ington society of 1816-1838, 

 which established a museum 

 and botanic garden under Gov- 

 ernment patronage. This is the 

 first of a proposed series of 

 papers on the history of the col- 



Rathbun, Richard — Continued. 



lections in the National Museum 

 and contains much valuable 

 and interesting data concerning 

 some of the most important ob- 

 jects in the national collections 

 compiled from the manuscript 

 and printed records of this early 

 society, which was the forerun- 

 ner of the National Institute. 

 The second paper of the series, 

 on the National Institute, is in 

 course of preparation. 



