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thropologic research. Tribes with the social institutions of 

 kinship, art with its highest architectural development ex- 

 hibited in the structure of communal dwellings, and polythe- 

 ism in the worship of mythic annimals and nature-gods 

 remain. 



TWENTY-SEVENTH REGULAR MEETLNG. 



October 5, 1880. 



Scheme of the Tenth Census for the Enumeration of 

 Untaxed Indians. * 



By GARRICK MALLERY. 



The speaker exhibited the schedule prepared by the 

 Bureau of Ethnology for this purpose and explained the 

 object of the inquiries made therein. 



Ossuary at Accotink, Va. 



By E. R. REYNOLDS. 



This ossuary was discovered on the 15th of April, 1800, 

 by a party of gentlemen from the Shenandoah Valley. It 

 is situated on the farm of Lewis Ashton, Esq., Fairfax 

 County, near the confluence of Accotink Creek and the 

 Potomac, at Marlborough. The cutting of its banks by the 

 creek revealed human remains and implements. Mr. Printz 

 and other members of the party succeeded in recovering 

 the bones of twelve very large Indians. They had been 

 buried with their feet to the east under a stratum of earth 

 six feet deep. The skeletons appeared to be between six and 

 seven feet long, and correspondingly large in other respects. 



