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824 General Notes, [December, 
cardinal points, turning completely around, and finished by blow- 
ing the breath from his nose and mouth upon it. 
Before digging the grave a number of chickens belonging to 
the dead man were killed and placed at intervals around the spot 
selected for sepulture, ať a distance of twenty-five or thirty feet 
from it. The body was clothed with a new shirt and pantaloons, 
the forehead and eyes covered with a badge made of white beads, 
and a crown, or head-dress, of feathers above all. The cries and 
lamentations of the women were so plaintive, and their grief 
seemed so sincere, that there were but few dry eyes among the 
white bystanders who had come to see the last of old Joe Potoke. 
Before the company of mourners left the ground everything be- 
longing to Joe was brought out from the house and broken up. 
Dishes, cooking utensils, knives and forks, buckets, and furniture 
sharing the same fate.— Lower Lake (Cal) Bulletin. 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NEws.—The second number of the Ameri- 
can Antiquarian, edited by the Rev. S. D. Peet, contains the fol- 
lowing articles: A Comparison of the Pueblo pottery with Egypt- 
ian and Greek ceramics, by Edwin A. Barber; Traditions of the 
Deluge among the tribes of the Northwest, by Rev. M. Eells; 
Description of an Engraved Stone by John E. Sylvester, M.D.; 
Prehistoric Ruins in Missouri; Gleanings, by S. S. Haldeman; 
Sketch of the Klamath Language, by Albert S. Gatschet ; 
The location of the Indian tribes of the Northwest territory, 
by Stephen D. Peet; Remarkable Relics—Leaf Shaped Imple- 
ments, by Prof. M. C. Reid. The paper of Mr. Barber is pro- s~ 
fusely illustrated, and shows considerable reading, but surely 
no one acquainted with the evolution of the art idea on our 
continent supposes that the Egyptians had anything whatever to do , 
with it. With reference to Mr. Eells paper, and all ethnic stories 
_ of the same class, we shall have to Jay down this canon, “ As to 
matters of fact tradition is a tolerable guide to truth, while regard- 
ing matters of opinion it has no value whatever.” The engraved 
