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called culture-migrations. Granting that the Indian replaced the older 
man who lived at the foot of the glacier, and that this older man is rep- 
resented by the existing Eskimo, the consideration I have presented in a 
paper read (August, 1875) before the American Association,! that the 
migration of the Eskimos depended upon the climate of the post-glacial 
epoch, that they followed the ice as naturally as the butterflies and the 
reindeer, does not seem to me to be as yet invalidated. — A. R. GROTE. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL News.— Among a large collection of Pai-Ute ma- 
terial received from Major J. W. Powell, at the National Museum, em- 
bracing specimens of their food, furniture of the dwelling, vessels and 
utensils, clothing, personal ornaments, implements, weapons, means of 
locomotion, pastimes, art, music, objects connected with social, civil, and 
religious life, some of the forms are new. A knife is of a hard, black 
volcanic stone, polished over its surface ; the edge is beveled on both 
sides, and there are convenient notches for the fingers and thumb. A 
double bottle is similar to Peruvian forms, and there is quite a variety 
of these in the collection. A new method of hafting, which I have 
hot seen figured, occurs in the case of nine axes and hammers. The 
head is the smooth, grooved variety, some of them having the groove 
all around, and others on three sides. In all cases the haft lies along 
one side, like a yoke on the neck of an ox, and the sinew or leather 
thong is belayed back and forward, around both haft and ax. 
Near St. Georges, Southern Utah, on the Santa Clara River, Dr. 
Edward Palmer examined a mound about ten feet high, oval in form, 
and containing about half an acre. The mound seems to have been 
built up as follows : The former inhabitants constructed small dwellings 
of sticks, or sticks and stones, with mud roofs. When one of their num- 
ber died, his remains, together with his apparel, implements, arms, orna- 
ments, and vessels of food and water, were fastened up with him, and the 
Whole consumed by fire. This is proved by the occurrence, irregularly 
throughout the entire mound, of strata of ashes in the exact shape of the 
ground plan of the house, and in the ashes the skeleton and objects de- 
posited with the corpse. The fire-place in all can be located by a deeper 
layer of ashes. Subsequently earth was brought and leveled over the 
“Pot on which a new edifice was to be erected. Thus the process of ac- 
cumulation went on, similar to what is exhibited on a grander scale in 
® city of Jerusalem and other old cities of the East. 
have a continuation of the labors of Abbé Petitot among the 
McKenzies River tribes in Dictionnaire de la Langue Déné Dindjie 
dialectes Montagnais ou Chippewayan, Peaux de Lievre, et Louchaux. 
Bibliotheque de Linguistique et d’Ethnographie Américaines. Publié 
t Alph. L. Pinart. on 
The Smithsonian Institution has received for publication an illustrated 
article upon the prehistoric mounds of Grant County, Wisconsin, by 
1 American Journal of Science and Arts, p. 338. 
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