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near Buftalo, and of Lake Ontario in Orleans county, New 

 York, where lie discovered pottery of the well-known net- 

 impressed lacustrine or littoral type, and also, at the former 

 point, some pits or slightl)^ indurated cavities in the sand, 

 which he considered to be connected with the manufacture of 

 that pottery. By experiments made without the aid of mod- 

 ern appliances of any kind, he duplicated the ancient speci- 

 mens found in the vicinity, and showed that these pits, lined 

 with ordinary fishing nets, had actually been used simply and 

 effectively for shaping pottery. He afterwards prepared an 

 illustrated report giying the details on the subject. 



GENERAL FIELD STUDIES 

 WORK OF MR H. W. HENSHAW 



On May 14, 1892, Mr H. W. Henshaw proceeded to New 

 Mexico and California for the purpose of collecting material 

 for the tribal svnonymv, and also with the view of collectinsr 

 such linguistic information as to permit more trustworthy 

 classification of certain southwestern tribes. He was also 

 commissioned to make collections for the World's Columbian 

 Exposition. He was able to make a considerable collection 

 of objective material, which was arranged in the National 

 Museum and conveyed to Chicago as a part of the exhibit of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology. He also obtained a considerable 

 body of linguistic and other data pertaining to the tribes of 

 southern California; but unhappily his health became im- 

 paired, and, while he remained in the field until the close of 

 the fiscal year, the results of his work were not so voluminous 

 as anticipated. 



AVORK OF MRS M. C. STEVENSON 



In August, 1891, Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson resumed her 

 investigations into the mythology, religion, and sociology of 

 the Zufii Indians, making a careful study of the shrine worship 

 which constitutes an imjjortant feature in the religion of those 

 people. She added to the already valuable collection of pho- 

 tographs and sketches of their sanctuaries, made in previous 



