VI PREFACE. 



Although the late Professor Othniel C. Marsh died nearly seven years before 

 I began the study of Chiriquian antiquities, it was his foresight, generosity and 

 consummate skill as a collector that brought together the series on which this 

 volume is primarily based. Mention in this place of the part he played is but 

 an inadequate expression of the tribute I would pay to his memory. In the reading 

 of copy and proofs I gratefully acknowledge the valuable assistance of Miss Lucy 

 P. Bush, for sixteen years assistant and private secretary to Professor Marsh, of 

 Dr. Katharine J. Bush, and Miss Mary S. Gillette. 



In thanking Yale University and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 through the Committee on Publication acting on behalf of both, for means of 

 diffusing the results of this study, it is most fitting that I should recall the debt 

 our science owes to the American Ethnological Society, which published nearly 

 all the early literature, now exeedingly rare, on the subject of Chiriquian an- 

 tiquities, and which at that time numbered among its members such distinguished 

 Yale professors as President Theodore Dwight Woolsey, Professors Edward 

 Elbridge Salisbury and J. Willard Gibbs, the elder and S. Wells Williams, who 

 later became professor of Chinese at Yale. 



YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONN., 

 May 26, 1909. 



