CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction S. A. Baruett 5 



The Early History of the Museum Carl Thal 7 



Notes on the Museum's Collecting Expeditions in 1921. 12 



Archeological Work of the Museum Alaxson Skinner 12 



Collecting Among the Blackfoot Indians S. A. Barrett 22 



Collecting for the Museum's New Series of Bird 



Groups Geo. Shrosbree 28 



A Spring Collecting Trip to the Wisconsin River.... H. L. SronoARD 36 



Collecting for a Group of Wisconsin Pond Life T. E. B. Pope 43 



Botany Collecting in Vilas County. Wis H. H. Smith 48 



Ethno-botanical Collecting on the Menomini 



Reservation H. H. Smith 50 



Sulphur Mining on the Gulf Coast Ira Edwards 56 



Special Notes and News 66 



Notes on the Diet of the Lnng-eared Owl H. L. Stoddard 66 



A Remarkable Shrunken Head from Ecuador Alansont Skinner 71 



A Blackfoot Sweat Lodge S. A. Barrett 73 



The Blackfoot Iniskim or Buffalo Bundle, Its 



Origin and Use S. A. Barrett 80 



The Painted Lodge or Ceremonial Tipi of the 



Blackfoot S. A. Barrett 85 



Notes on the Occurrence of Upper Devonian Strata 



in Wisconsin Ira Edwards and Gilbert Raasch 88 



Glacial Lake Lapham, a Preliminary Announcement. .. Ika Edwards 94 



The Economic Fishery Exhibit of the Public Museum.. T. E. B. Pope 100 



Celluloid as a Modeling Medium E. R. Tyrrell 105 



Historical Groups S. A. Barrett 108 



