560 : Gate! Notes. 
That they were acquainted with metals there can be but little 
doubt, although they do not appear to have made use of it except 
in the way of ornament. Some places in the neighboring moun- 
tains seem to indicate that they mined for ore, which they smelted 
in crude ovens. Whether this was copper or the precious metals 
is now difficult to determine, but that they were accustomed to bring 
these ovens or furnaces to a very high heat is indicated by the 
slag in their immediate vicinity. 
It is perhaps premature to attempt to decide who these people 
were, to whom they were related, and what became of them, I 
think it fairly settled by these discoveries that they were the ancestors 
of the modern Pueblos. Whether or not they were in any way 
connected with the ancient people of Mexico and Yucatan the 
future alone can decide, It seems certain, however, that one part 
of them went north to found the later Pueblo civilizations which 
are now represented by the Zuñis of to-day. 
If historical evidence is worth anything and if we can trust the 
ordinary evidences of archeology, then these ruins are beyond 
ae pre-Columbian, and may be as much as a thousand years 
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old. 
Mr. Cushing’s final report will be awaited with interest by all 
who are in any way interested in the subject. The archæological 
specimens have been shipped to Salem, and the skeletons will go 
to the Army Medical Museum in Washington. ; 
Tue Inprans or British COLUMBIA ! are made the subject of 
a short article by Dr. Franz Boas, who had the opportunity of 
studying during three months of the year 1886 several southern 
tribes of this connection. During that short lapse of time Boas 
has largely increased our knowledge of their tribes, tribal names, 
synonymy, and habitat, and has also gathered so much of their 
dialects as to enable us to divide them into linguistic families. 
The seven pages of Boas’s article (pp. 422-428) presently before 
us are chiefly filled with mythologic information, which for that 
special country is almost wholly new to us. Boas believes that the 
originated with tribes of Selish lineage (and many of the other 
North American Indians, he might have added). Other deitan 
appearing in these parts are Tsonokoa, a mythical prm pay . 
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among the Tsimpshian and the Indians on the mainland At 
1 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, eo 
November, 1887. bis cca 
