Maech 26, 1909] 



SGIUNGE 



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Ground Stone 

 I. Problematical forms. 



1. Lammas (i. e., flat "spuds," "gorgets" and 



pendants ) . 

 Types. 



(A) Spade-shaped. 



(B) Ovate. 



(a) Sides concave (not common). 

 (6) Sides straight, 

 (c) Sides convex. 



(C) Leaf -shaped. 



(D) Spear-shaped. 



(E) Rectangular, 

 (o) Sides concave. 

 (6) Sides straight, 

 (c) Sides convex. 



(P) Shield-shaped. 

 (Gr) Pendants. 



(a) Celt-shaped. 



( 6 ) Rectangular. 



(c) Oval or circular. 



2. Resemblances to known forms. 



(A) Animal-shaped stones. 



(B) Boat-shaped stones. 

 (0) Bar-shaped stones. 



(a) Longer, resembling true "bars." 



( 6 ) Shorter, " ridged " or " expanded 



(D) Spool-shaped stones. 



(E) Pick-shaped stones. 



(P) Plummet-shaped stones. 

 {G) Geometrical forms. 



(a) Spheres. 



( 6 ) Hemispheres. 



(c) Crescents. 



(d) Cones. 



3. Perforated stones with wings. 



(A) Wings with constant rate of change of 

 width. 

 (a) Wings expanding from perforation. 

 ( 6 ) Wings with sides parallel, 

 (c) Wings contracting from perforation. 

 <B) Wings with varying rate of change of 

 width. 

 II. Tubes and tube-shaped stones. 

 HI. Beads. 

 IV. Pitted stones other than hammer-stones. 



The committee finally takes pleasure in thank- 

 ing the following members for assistance rendered : 

 Professor N. H. Winchell, University of Minne- 

 sota, Minneapolis; Professor Henry Montgomery, 

 University of Toronto, Toronto; Professor Wm. 

 N. Bates, University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 



phia; Dr. H. Kinner, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. George 

 Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New Haven; 

 Mr. W. Raymond Harrington, New York; Mrs. 

 Zelia Nuttall, Coyoaean, D. F., Mexico; Mr. C. C. 

 Willoughby, Harvard University, Cambridge; Dr. 

 Walter Hough, National Museum, Washington; 

 Dr. Nicholas Leon, Mexico; Mr. F. 8. Dellenbaugh, 

 New York; Professor F. W. Putnam, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge; Dr. John M. Wulfing, St. 

 Louis; Mr. H. I. Smith, American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York; Rev. J. D. Marmor, 

 New York; Mr. Christopher Wren, Plymouth, Pa.; 

 Dr. A. W. Butler, Indianapolis; Dr. H. W. 

 Shimer, Boston; Professor W. H. Holmes, Wash- 

 ington; Mr. Richard Herrmann, Dubuque, Iowa; 

 Dr. H. P. ten Kate, Tokio; Dr. J. B. Ambrosetti, 

 Buenos Aires. 



The committee was continued and asked to 

 collate the terminology already in use. 



The report of the Committee on Concordance of 

 American Mythologies was accepted as read by 

 Professor Boas, chairman, and the committee was 

 continued. 



Mr. F. W. Hodge's report as chairman of the 

 Committee on Linguistic Families North of Mex- 

 ico was accepted and the committee continued. 

 In this connection it was moved and carried that 

 whenever an author uses a term not acceptable 

 to the committee the editor be instructed to add 

 in parenthesis the term approved by the com- 

 mittee. Mr. Hodge also reported for the Com- 

 mittee on Book Reviews, of which he is chairman.. 

 The report was accepted and the committee dis- 

 charged at their own request and with a vote of 

 thanks for their labors on the part of the asso- 

 ciation. 



Dr. George A. Dorsey, recently returned from a 

 year's stay in the far east, gave an interesting 

 account of his journey through New Guinea. The 

 Papuans of New Guinea are very different phys- 

 ically from the natives of New Britain. The vari- 

 ous forms of head-dress were described; also the 

 splendid character of the pile dwellings that are 

 such a striking feature of the coast region. Men- 

 tion was made of the wooden drums five to fifteen 

 feet in length, great adzes of stone and shell, 

 wooden bowls carved to represent animals, the 

 canoes, etc. All are expert canoe men. The usual 

 form is the outrigger carrying sails and often of 

 great size. 



The Big River (Kaiserin Auguste) was ascended 

 for a distance of 110 miles, where it was still as 

 large as and deeper than th,e Mississippi at St. 

 Louis. The country is flat and covered by ex- 

 tensive forests. Twenty villages (sago gatherers) 



