ARTEFACTS COLLECTED 
142 
resemblances to the forms and techniques of three distinct 
Stone Age cultures, (1) Moustierian, (2) Solutrean, (3) Neo¬ 
lithic. 
I regret that I cannot more fully describe the collection 
of stone artefacts, but the greater number having gone to 
Melbourne, I was only able to examine them very cursorily. 
The only other artefact objects to be noted are the purplish 
Photinula shells, shon-upushka , which were roughly per¬ 
forated for stringing on sinews to serve as neck ornaments. 
These univalve shells were obtained from the kelp. 
In concluding this brief, descriptive summary of the 
objects of archaeological and ethnological interest, collected 
during the progress of the expedition, I may add that I esteem 
it a privilege to have been invited to contribute to the volume 
in which is summarized the active scientific life-work of one 
who remained a close and greatly valued friend of mine 
throughout a period of more than forty years. That he, 
when already advanced in years and with a very full life's 
work in scientific research already achieved, should have 
sought out a new field for investigation, is symptomatic of 
his restless energy and enthusiasm. While we all must 
deeply deplore the tragic ending of his last venture, we may 
find gratification in the thought that Spencer was to the 
very last keenly and characteristically engaged upon his 
favourite and most absorbing pursuit—ethnological and zoo¬ 
logical field-work. He would, I think, have wished his end 
to be thus. 
