PREFACE XVn 



The Hawaiian Islands and Samoa are remote from tlie American 

 shores, but a brief review of their antiquities may 

 Hawaii and Samoa be embodied in this work for comparative purposes. 

 It is not assumed that intimate reUitions existed be- 

 tween these and other Pacific isUmds and the American Continent 

 during early or even late pre-Columbian times, but analogies are 

 found to exist between tlie antiquities of the adjacent land areas 

 and especially along the more proximate shores of the two regions 

 which require to be explained. 



The multitude of analogies between the art forms of America and 

 those of the Stone Age peoples of the Old World 

 Culture Analogies need not receive exhaustive attention in this work, 

 although it is recognized that a comparative study 

 of the entire field would be most interesting in its bearing upon the 

 questions of parallel developments, relationships, and resemblance 

 due to incomplete differentiations and to analogies arising from 

 transfer of independently developed culture phenomena. 



The researches relating to the antiquities of America and more 

 especially of Northern America are recorded in an 

 literature extensive literature. Published works embodying 



original researches in the several ethnic areas, out- 

 lined later on, are cited in connection with the brief comparative 

 study of these areas, and it is intended that a list of publications 

 bearing upon the general field shall appear as an appendix in one 

 of the subsequent volumes. 



W. II. Holmes. 

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