+e + - General Notes. [June, 
War-Ciuss vs. Diceinc-Sticks.—Toward the end of April the 
secretary of the Smithsonian Institution received from Dr. Stephen 
Bowers, of San Buenaventura, California, editor of the Pacific Sctence 
Monthly, No. 4, Vol. 1, of that publication, containing an account of 
the discovery of Indian relics in a cave in the San Mastin mountains, 
Los Angeles county, California. Among the relics were four 
heavy perforated stone (probably serpentine) disks, measuring 
from four to five and a half inches in diameter, and still retaining 
_ their handles of zoygn or bearberry-wood, which is among the 
hardest in Southern California. The handles are from thirteen to 
seventeen inches in length, and are cut off bluntly. To judge 
from an accompanying photograph, the stones are in every way 
analogous to a certain class among the many perforated stones 
collected by Mr. Paul Schumacher and others in the same neigh- 
borhood, and now in the archæological collection of the National 
Museum. 
Dr. Rau expressed ten years ago (in “Archæological Collection 
of the U. S. National Museum,” p. 31), the opinion that the more 
bulky of the Californian disk or cone-shaped stones served as club- 
heads, and he was strengthened in his view by the fact that the 
„extensive National Museum collections from the above-named 
t 
theory would be so unexpectedly verified by the finding of such 
stones with their handles still inserted. Mr. Schumacher con- 
sidered the stones as weights for digging-sticks, relying On : 
statement of a half-breed vaguero. 
linguistic students as well as among the scholarly authors ai 
books on American ethnology. The harmonious, vocalic struc 
ts literature 
hed the 
de- 
of Anahuac, if not of the whole Nahuatl family. In the v and 
_ulary appended, he differs in many points from Molina, © 
mg forms of the “ literary ” Aztec, is not always possible uer 
out. Asan early source for dialectic study the “ Arte Mexi 
will prove to be of peculiar value.—A. S. Gatschet. 
