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ANTHROPOLOGY.! 
ANCIENT OLLA MANUFACTORY on SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, CAL. 
—During my explorations along the Pacific coast I pai d much 
attention to the discovery of the workshops of one of the most 
beautiful articles of true aboriginal workmanship. It is the o//a, 
a cooking vessel made of a species of steatite, the pot stone, or 
lapis ollaris of old, of which Theophrastus and Pliny speak as a 
material used for the manufacture of vessels among the ancient 
eastern nations. My observations and notes, which I made while 
working on the mainland, pointed to the islands in the Santa 
Barbara channel as the locality i in which the manufacture was 
carried on. I expressed the opinion in my report to the Smith- 
sonian Institution (Hayden’s Bulletin, Vol. iii, p. 50) that the site 
must be looked for on Santa Catalina islan During my last 
year’s visit to that island, on behalf of the Peabody Museum, I 
discovered the first quarries’ in the locality eee Pots valley. 
The pits and quarries revealed the busy hand of the aborigines, 
among the débris, and in the partly-covered nie where cooking 
vessels were found in all stages of finish, from the boulder but 
partly worked out from the rock and still firmly attached to it, 
the globular form Ae ce rounded, the boulder in which the 
excavation has already en commenced, and so on to the 
smoothly finished pot. All the implements with which the task 
was accomplished were also found, and by observing progress 
_ of the work in the many specimens discovered, it was not diffi- 
cult to ascertain the mode of manufacture, the aek of which I 
made a subject of an essay accompanied by illustrations (Report 
of the Peabody Museum, 1877). Not only were cooking vessels 
extensively manufacture d on this island, but also flat dishes 
(which the Mexicans call Coniáles), cups, pipes, stone rings which 
were used as weights for digging-sticks, and all kinds of trinkets. 
These articles constituted the money of the people of Santa Cat- 
alina, like the shell-beads of the neighboring island of Santa 
Cruz, where they were extensively manufactured by the aborig- 
ines, and whence they were distributed far along the coast, and 
to some extent into the interior. The quarries are more abundant 
in number towards the south-eastern end of Santa Catalina 
where for about two miles square not less than three hundred 
quarries and pits were discovered during my last visit, with a 
large number of pot-boulders, sherds, tools, etc.—Paul Schu- 
macher. 
ABORIGINAL BurtaL.—A very singular case of aboriginal eke 
was brought to my nce recently by Mr. Wm. Klingbeil, of 
Philadelphia. On the New Jersey bank of the Delaware River, 
a short distance below Giaa city, the skeleton ofa man was 
found buried in a standing position in a high red sandy clay bluff 
_ ‘Edited by Prof. Orts T. MAson, Columbian College, Washington, D. C. 
