artifacts of the class commonly regarded as displaying traces 
of Caribbean influence; and while neither time nor opportunity 
permitted exhaustive study, a few interesting generalisations 
were made. One of these relates to the relative abundance of 
esthetic and industrial motives among those artifacts dis- 
playing traces of a southern influence. When the objects and 
special features were compared with those from Florida and 
other portions of southern United States, it was noted that 
the presumably imported or accultural features are predominantly 
esthetic, and only subordinately of technical or industrial 
character -- that is, it would appear from the collections 
that esthetic motives travel more freely, or are interchanged 
more readily, than purely utilitarian motives among primitive 
peoples. The relation is of course complicated by the relative 
abundance of fiducial or other sophic motives, which often 
blend with both esthetic and industrial motives in puzzling 
fashion; but even after these motives are weighed or eliminated, 
the general relation remains unchanged. The generalization 
promises to be of service as a guide in the study of that af- 
filiation of tribes, or integration of peoples, which compli- 
cates every ethnologic problem. The Director's inquiries were 
greatly facilitated by Professor Holmes' artistic training and 
his extended familiarity with both the esthetic and the indus- 
trial motives of aboriginal artifacts; nor could the generali- 
zation have been made without the aid of Mr. Cushing and the 
opportunity of examining his remarkable collection of artifacts 
of wood and shell from the muck beds of western Florida, of 
which a considerable part is now in the National Museum " 
