XVIII LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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 Fig. 55. Fire-making by sawing, after the Bnrmese and Malay method. (From photograph in 



the U. S. National Museum) 399 



56. Fire-making by plowing. (Drawn from specimen in the TJ. S. National M useuni) 400 



57. Dyak fire syringe, or Besiapi. (From plate in Jour. Anthrop. Inst., Great Britain, XIX, 



1890) 402 



58. Bundle of shaving-matches 403 



59. Sulphnr-wicks . 403 



60. Sulphur "spunks." (Presented by George G. Fryer) 403 



61. Sulphur "spunks. '' 404 



62. Shaving-matches. (Presented by George G. Fryer) 404 



63. Block matches 406 



The Ancient Pit-Dwellers of Yezo, Japan. By Romyn Hitchcock. 



Fig. 64. Sketch map of Tezo 418 



65. Plan of dwelling, Shikotan 425 



66. Musical instrument, Shikotan 426 



67. Carrying band, Shikotan 426 



The Ainos of Tezo, Japan. By Romyn Hitchcock. 



Fig. 68. Sketch map of Japan 430 



69. Rice-bowl and fish plate, Tsuishikari Ainos - 441 



70. Outlines of cross sections of Aiuo hairs. (From photographs) 450 



71. Frame-work of front part of an Aino house. (Froi) a photograph) 452 



72. Bark-dish used as a fish-plate .._ 455 



73. Bark water bucket and dipper 455 



74. Carved wooden plates 456 



75. Wooden spoons and carved spatulas used in eating 456 



76. Carved knife-cases 457 



77. Sake cup and stand, and moustache sticks. 459 



78. A'.no tobacco pipes -. 4C0 



79. Tobacco boxes and sticks 461 



80. A Mokuri player 402 



81. Tonkari 462 



82. Aino woman weaving 463 



83. Aino graves 466 



81. Bows, arrows, and quiver 468 



85. Spears; needle fur making fish -nets 470 



86. Inao— willow sticks with shavings attached 474 



87. Ceremonial bark head dress. 477 



88. The bear's skull on the sacred hedge 481 



Handbook fok the Department of Geology in the U. S. National Museum, 

 part i, Geognosy.— the materials of the earth's crust. By George P. Merrill. 



Fig. 89. Mounted thin section of rock as prepared for the microscope 515 



90. Augite altering into hornblende. (After Hawes) 516 



91. Microstructure of oolitic limestone from Princeton, Kentucky 529 



92. Microstructure of sandstone from Portland, Connecticut 536 



93. Microstructure of crystalline limestone from West Rutland, Vermont 545 



94. Microstructure of gneiss from West Andover, Massachusetts 547 



95. Microstructure of quartzite from Potsdam, New York 549 



96. Microstructure of diabase from Weehawken, New Jersey 562 



97. Microstructure of porpbyritic lherzolite 566 



98. Microstructure of pyroxenite 568 



Anthropology at the Paris Exposition. By Thomas Wilson. 



Fig. 99, Possible alphabetic characters from Kahuu, twelfth dynasty, Egypt 676 



