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to, the tertiary release, and a variety of the Mediterranean release” 
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(pp. 10, II). ` Bo 
At any rate, as I say, all the Navajos which I examined, when 
not using the primary release employ in connection with the in- 
dex finger and thumb of the right hand the annularis digitto 
assist in drawing back the string when charged with an arrow. — 
These arrows have an elaborately made “ notch,” are armed 
with three feathers, and tipped with thin and flat heads of iron, 
made sharp with a file. The feathers are attached about an inci 
above the notch, and are placed at an equal distance apart on the 
cylindrical shaft. Sometimes the plane of one of these feathers 
will be at right angles to the notch, but again the arrangement 
may be otherwise, and I am satisfied they have no special rule : 
in putting them on. Deer-sinew is used to wrap them, as it 1s t0 
confine the iron head at the distal extremity of the shaft —R.W. 
Shufeldt, U. S. Army, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, 29th March, 1887. 
of the most important bits of news is the purchase of the “ Grea 
Serpent Mound,” in Adams County, Ohio, by the Peabody Mi 
seum of American Archæology and Ethnology. At the time of 
the explorations of Squier and Davis (1849) it was covered by4 
heavy growth of trees, but most of them were prostrated by the 
great tornado of 1859, since which time the elements have seriously 
damaged it. Knowing this fact, Professor F. W. Putnam, of the 
Peabody Museum, wrote a letter ad ting the preservation ofthis 
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n oval about ninety feet long, and still farther in front of we 
tending to the point of the bluff, is an ill-defined portion i : 
Ten have likened to a jumping frog, while others thinh OA 
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ao 1 foll g the centre of the c ‘no outline 
te ae 2 Sem e constantly-curving 0 Pr 
oes Paraly. fortunate that this, one of the most wonderful of 5 
