1020 General Notes. [October, 
question “ow. Finally, the finished product of each art should 
be procured in all the types of its manifestation. I know one 
man who collects only the rudest products of each art. I know 
many more who are wasting fortunes on chef d'œuvres, and, I am 
proud to say, there are very many private collectors who are en- 
gaged in exhausting a special theme up to the limit of their 
means. In 1875 I prepared a little pamphlet for Centennial col- 
lectors in which I dwelt particularly upon this point. Some of 
the material procured for that great exhibit was gathered by the 
rule that we must have all of a thing or none. Lately some of 
the mound-explorers have proceeded on the same plan. But, 
alas, the old raking-in process is also largely in vogue, and future 
museum students will have a happy time in guessing what man- 
ner of people those ancients were. I have lately opened a large 
lot of relics from old Peruvian cemeteries, in which the transmit- 
ter says, “ You will doubtless know all about these things.” In 
emptying some of the pots and gourds I came across a large 
beetle, nearly two inches long, transfixed with an entomologist’s 
pin, the latter very much rusted. Now, can any body tell me 
whether the Incas were so advanced in culture as to make collec- 
tions of insects and to preserve them on pins exactly like those 
in use forty years ago? 
~ Anthropology is fast becoming an exact science, thanks to the 
noble army of collectors who have known how to see, delineate, 
collect and describe ; but there is still room for improvement. I 
o not mean that we must become the victims of professional 
collectors, The much better way is for every lover and student 
of this science to exercise the greatest wisdom on his own behalf, 
to do his own collecting as far as possible, and to submit other 
material to the most rigid scrutiny. 
Puyaus In SuTLEJ VALLEY.—In nearly every Himalayan village 
there is a house for the representation of the local divinity. In 
front is a shed formed of four pillars, and a roof of wood orna- 
mented in the style of the temple. This is both a resting place 
The ceremony was a pecu- 
dance in the porch of the temple, during which the devi was 
ied round by two men facing each other. The villagers faced 
litter in a semicircle, their arms intertwined. The end man 
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