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marriage, and funeral customs, occupations and industries, games and_ social 
organisation. 
Dr. A. Goldenweiser spent two months of the summer of 1911 on the Iroquois 
Reserve at Tuscarora, Brant Co., Ontario. He obtained much important, informa- 
tion as to the social organisation of the Iroquois natives. 
Mr. F. W. Waugh and Mr. F. H. 8. Knowles are also working among the 
Troquois on the Six Nations Reserve near Brantwood. 
Linguistic work among the Ojibway is being carried on by Dr. P. Radin. 
Dr. W. H. Mechlin has obtained much valuable information as to the sociology, 
religion, and linguistics of the Malecite and Micmac tribes of New Brunswick 
and Quebec. He has also secured a valuable collection of phonograph records 
and specimens illustrating Indian life and culture. 
Mr. J. A. Teit will begin work on the distribution and classification of the 
Athabascan tribes during the coming year. 
The Department is working with vigour to cover the whole Canadian field, 
and it is hoped that at the end of another year, when the arrangement of the 
collections already made has been completed, Canada will be fully in line with 
other countries. 
9. Prehistoric Remains in the Upper Stort Valley.* 
By the Rev. A. Irvine, D.Sc., B.A. 
During the year 1912 remains have turned up in excavations in three new 
localities :— 
(i.) At Maple Avenue (not far from the spot where the horse skeleton was 
found),” including remains of 
(1) Horse : two broken metacarpals comparable with those found last year 
beneath the Stort alluvium. 
(2) Ox: one radius (upper half); two tibice (upper half), one ground flat 
and perforated as the ‘haft’* for a wedge-shaped flint axe; 
metacarpal (lower half); two metatarsals (one nearly complete, but 
gnawed at the lower end); one tibia (lower half); one Awmerus 
(lower end). 
(3) Sheep: broken mandible (a large animal). 
(4) Human artefacts: five or six worked flints, including two borers 
(? one and a scraper) ; two fragments of coarse neolithic pottery. 
Several of the bones show marks of teeth of some carnivorous animal; and 
two bear marks (at the fracture) of a hatchet (suggesting the Bronze Age). 
They were found on the hill-slope under 15 to 2 feet of ‘rubble drift’ (clay 
and humus soil), the excavation being carried down into the solid London Clay. 
(ii.) Site of new post office in South Street.—Excavation (some 8 feet deep) 
in ‘rubble-drift’ material, mostly remanié stuff from the Boulder Clay which 
caps the hill, above. The materials showed a feeble stratification in general 
concordance with the hill-slope. Several broken antlers of Cervus elaphus (per- 
forated and otherwise worked) were found in it. 
(iii.) Henham (see Nature, May 2, 1912). 
Note.—Observations by Mr. P. A. Irving, B.A., on the face of an extensive 
gravel-pit at Thorley during the British Association Meeting at Dundee have led 
to the opening-up of a prehistoric site, with pottery (of several types), flint 
implements, charcoal, fire-stones, bones, and teeth of Hquus, Bos, Sus, and 
Castor (7). Several of the ‘finds’ are of special interest, including a decayed 
mandible with pm. 1, pm. 2, pm. 3, pm., and m. 1°4 all in place, which, by 
measurements, must have belonged to a horse of a bigger type than the Stortford- 
Grimaldi horse; also a nearly complete ‘tulip-shaped’ beaker or drinking-eup 
34 inches high (October 1912). : : 
See Brit. Assoc. Reports (Section H), Sheffield, 1910, and Portsmouth, 1911. 
Ibid. 1910, pp. 616 and 736. -. : 
Cf. B. M. Guide to the Stone Age, p. 70. 
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