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plements in the Valley of the Axe; Notes on the Zaparos, and 
the Presidents Address. Especial interest attaches to the 
detachable spear-heads, or harpoon-heads on plates xii, xiii, xiv, 
xv, as well as to the many-pronged fish or bird-spears, because 
these objects resemble so closely those found in various parts of 
America. Referring the matter to Mr. Frank H. Cushing, of the 
National Museum, we received the following reply: ‘ Three 
kinds of harpoon-arrows are found among our North American 
collections. A very rude form is used by the McCloud River 
Indians in catching salmon. Another entirely typical, highly 
finished, and as often pointed with native copper as with bone or 
ivory, is employed by the North-west Coast Indians for the same 
purpose. A third common to the Alaska Eskimo, and entirely 
resembling the formidable fishing spears of the Andaman Island- 
ers.’ Without drawings it is impossible to convey the resem- ' 
blance between the loose headed seat pat a of Andaman and 
- Nicobar and those of our American contine 
The Smithsonian Institution has lately palhe through the 
Government Printing Office four pamphlets relating to archæolo- 
gical subjects. They are reprints from the forthcoming Smithso- 
nian Report for 1877. We can only pu the titles: Aboriginal 
Structures in Georgia, by Charles C. Jones, Jr.; On a Polychrome 
Bead from Florida, by S. S. Haldeman ; The Stock-in-trade of an 
Aboriginal Lapidary, by Charles Rau; Observations on a Gold 
Ornament from a Mound in Florida, by the same. 
A writer in the Maton for July 25th gives a very graphic de- 
scription of the lessons of the Bannock war. scientific j journa 
cannot discuss the merits of the amount of culpability resting on 
our government for the war. A very interesting illustration of 
the aid which ethnology may furnish to politics is ee in a 
supplementary note on page 57, evidently from the same pen. 
“The word Bannock is a corruption for Pannaiti [Panait ?] by 
which n name the people know themselves, and means ‘ Northern- 
ers, they, in fact, dwelling the furthest north of all the tribes com- 
part of the whole family has in the past been styled ‘Shoshoni’ 
or ‘ Snakes,’ after one of its prominent divisions. The Bannocks 
and Paviotsos are hereditary enemies. The Umatillas, Cayuse, 
and Walla-Wallas are of the Sahaptin family, whose immemorial 
feud with the Shoshones would induce them to attack rather than > 
to join the Bannocks.” 
rof. De Hass has been spending some months in Washington 
taking advantage of the fine collections and libraries there to 
add to the value of his course of lectures on archæolog 
: y. He 
has been so fortunate as to trace in the uplands of Penmayiaa 
