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ETHNOLOGY. 



Ko. 268. — The handle of a tool for hollowing out canoes, which is 

 fully shown in the accompanying drawing, (Fig D.) 



Fig. D. 



No. 269. — The ujjpci ydnu ui a, uauum belonging to a tool like Xo. 268. 

 I found it in the excavation with Nos. 208, 242, and 289. 



No. 270. — Approaches in shape to an ax, and appears to have been 

 broken in use. 



Nos. 271 to 281. — Stones as shaped by nature, which might easily mis- 

 lead the collector. But if tbe undisturbed position is regarded in 

 which they were found, we soon come to the conclusion that no Indian 

 hand gave them this form, but that it was the sand, driven by heavy 

 winds, which polishes all exposed objects. I also found such stones on 

 bare sand-hills, but mainly on the hard yellow ground of Crook Point, 

 on both sides of which drift-sand is abundant, and where the continual 

 northwest wind during summer and violent southwesterly storms in 

 the winter drive heavy masses of sand before them. There these stones 

 either stick in the loamy soil, their surface only being exposed, (No. 275 ;) 

 or they lie in a steep bank, so that only one edge projects out above 

 the surface, (No. 276 ;) and again others in such a position that the sand 

 can get at them on all sides, (Nos. 274 and 277.) 



Nos. 282 to 283.— Unknown. 



Nos. 284 and 285. — Perhaps spades. 



No. 286. — Evidently a whetstone. 



Nos. 289 to 291. — Skulls, the measurements of which are as follows : 





Distance from root 

 of nose over top of 

 head to position 

 of foramen mag- 

 num. 



From orifice of ear — 



til 



P4 





Ifumber of skull. 



Over fore- 

 head and 

 occiput. 



Over top of 

 head. 



Over occi- 

 put. 



Found at— 



291 



Centimeters. 

 37 

 38 

 34.5 

 35. 25 



Centimeters. 



50 



53 



49 



■ 51 



Centimeters. 

 33.5 

 35.0 

 32.25 

 31. '25 



Centimeters. 

 29 

 3-2 



28 

 31 



Centimeters. 

 25 

 30 



24.75 

 27.5 





289 - 



Chetko 



K"ot sent 



290 



Do. 







The following shells, the names of which Mr. Dall kindly ascertained 

 and fixed for me, I present as the characteristic species which con- 

 stitute and are found in the Kjokken-Moddings. The relative percentage 

 I approximate at 0.7 3£ytilus calif ornianus ; 0.2 Tapes staminea ; and 0.1 

 of the remaining ones, among which Maclimra patula and Bulimus 

 and Purpuca laotuca are predominant. 



REMARKS ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DESERTED SETTLEMENTS 

 ON WHICH THESE OBJECTS WERE FOUND. 



GJiit, now Chetho, {Map G.) — On the elevated right bank of the Chetko 

 Eiver, near its mouth, there are extensive beds of bleached shells, fish- 



