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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I92I 



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Mr. Harrington's field studies reveal the fact that the language 

 of the Kiowa, who are now settled in Oklahoma but formerly had 

 eastern Montana as their habitat, is closely and genetically related to 

 that of the Taos and other Tanoan tribes of New Mexico, which have 

 typical Pueblo culture. Thus, the interesting fact is established that 

 the Taos speak a dialect of Kiowa just as the Hopi, farther west, speak 

 a divergent Shoshonean. These studies also make it clear that Keres 

 and Zufii are related to each other genetically, and furthermore to 

 Tano-Kiowan and Shoshonean, the languages all having a common 

 origin. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD-WORK ON THE SUSQUEHANNA 

 RIVER, PENNSYLVANIA 



In July, 1921, Mr. John L. Baer, Acting Curator of American 

 Archeology of the United States National Museum, examined for 



Fig. 129. — Petroglyphs, Bald Friars, 

 Md. 



Fig. 130. — Petroglyphs on Miles Is- 

 land, Susquehanna River, Pa., near 

 Mason-Dixon Line. 



the Bureau of American Ethnology a number of instructive picto- 

 graphs at Bald Friars and Miles Island in the Susquehanna River. 



These occur about one-fourth the distance between Bald Friars 

 Station and Conowingo Station, on the Columbia and Port Deposit 

 Railroad. 



All the rocks upon which petroglyphs are found seem to have been 

 polished before the petroglyphs were cut in them. The top surfaces 

 of most of the rocks bearing petroglyphs were marked with cups and 

 circular grooves, some of which were concentric. Some of the rocks 

 were fractured destroying the continuity of pictures that originally 

 existed. Upon one large rock broken from its original position pos- 

 sibly by ice are carved two slender fishes headed up-stream. The rock 

 upon which they were found suggests a good stand for shad fishing 

 with a net. 



