420 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.—H. 
15. Mr. Warren K. Mooreneap.—The Red Paint People of Maine. 
This paper presents explorations among the graves of a strictly prehistoric 
culture in central Maine; 440 of these graves have been examined, and eight 
types or forms in stone artifacts persist. The culture is not Algonkin, nor does 
it appear to be related to any known Indian culture of the United States. There 
is a slight similarity between it and that of ihe Eskimo. A characteristic 
feature is that nearly every grave contains a large quantity of powdered hema- 
tite, apparently brought from the natural outcrops of iron ore found near the 
head of the Piscataquis river in north-central Maine. 
16, Dr. A. Hrpuicka.—The Antiquity of Man in America in the Light 
of Recent Discoveries. 
During recent years research on Man’s Antiquity in America has been greatly 
stimulated by a number of accidental finds of human remains in a state of 
fossilisation, or under circumstances which more or less strongly suggested 
geologic antiquity. Such finds have been reported from Ecuador, the Valley 
of Mexico and various parts of the United States, especially California. The 
most remarkable of them to date (May 1924) is doubtless the discovery of six 
human skeletons beneath 19 to 23 feet of sand and silt in the outskirts of Los 
Angeles. This last-named discovery was made accidentally during the con- 
struction of an outlet for a sewer, and, thanks to the authorities of the local 
museum and especially to Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie 
Institution, they were subjected from the start to a careful scientific scrutiny. 
A preliminary report on this important find was made before the National 
Academy of Sciences at its April meeting in Washington. 
The antiquity of the specimens that form the subject of this paper differs, 
and in some instances, particularly that of the Los Angeles find, is doubtless 
considerable. But according to all indications it is still not a geological anti- 
quity, nor an age measurable in tens of thousands, but rather to be estimated 
in thousands of years. 
17. Joint Discussion with Section E on the subject of Prof. J. W. 
Grecory’s Address. “ 
18. Mr. W. J. WintemBerc.—aA Tentative Characterisation of Iroquoian 
Cultures in Ontario and Quebec, as determined from Archeological 
Remains. 
We know from historical sources that the Hurontario peninsula was occupied 
by the following tribes and tribal group of the Iroquoian stock : The Tionontati 
or Tobacco Nation Indians, the Hurons, and the Attiwandarons or Neutrals. 
There are many indications that the country between Lake Simcoe and Montreal 
also was occupied by people of Iroquoian stock, but we have no definite his- 
torical information as to what tribes were represented. A comparison of the 
artifacts from known Huron sites and from Onondaga sites in New York State 
with those from Iroquoian sites of this region, however, indicates that this 
area was probably occupied by the Hurons and Onondaga. Some post-European 
sites in the region between the Grand River and the Niagara frontier are 
probably referable to Seneca rather than to Neutral occupation, as is generally 
supposed. Certain features of the material culture of most of the Iroquoian 
people inhabiting Ontario are sufficiently characteristic to differentiate the 
culture of one group from that of another. Archeological evidences, further- 
more, seem to indicate that the culture of at least one group is divisible into 
four stages or chronological periods. 
19. Mr. Guy E. Ruoapes.—Composition in the Art of the North-West 
Coast Indians. 
The synthesis of design units in the conventional decorative art of the Indians 
of the North Pacific Coast has already been noticed. The reason for its develop- 
ment would seem to be found in the technique of application; and this in- 
volves the question of priority in the origin of painting and carving. 
