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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo04amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL bones were gathered together and placed in niches, but some- times they were allowed to remain on the floor. Often they were painted red. In some instances the metate and hand stone for grinding corn and the clay griddle for baking the tortillas or corn-cakes were placed in the chamber, with numerous incense burners. Then the door was sealed with a large stone, and usually objects of value, such as personal ornaments and mosa- ics, were thrown into the space in front of the vault. Probably some of the oft'erings of food, drink and incense were intended for the deities whose efflgies (the funeral urns) were placed near by. A mound of earth, adobe bricks and stones was raised over the structure and sometimes covered with a dome of cement. Marshall H. Saville.
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HE Guide-Leaflet, "Primitive Art," which accom- panies this number of the Journal, is a compara- tive treatment of the collections in some of the halls of the Department of Ethnology. The ma- terial illustrating the decorative art of the Indians, the Eskimo and other native tribes of North America and eastern Asia is very full, and the Leaflet is intended for use both as a resume of the subject and as a general introduction to the ex- haustive study which may be carried on by means of the collec- tions and with the aid of the literature to which reference is made in the bibliography printed at the end of the text. THE GIANT SPIDER CRAB FROM THE JAPANESE SEAS. The following note in regard to the size of the Giant Spider Crab from the Japanese Seas has been communicated by Ge- heimer Hofrath Dr. A. B. Meyer, director of the Royal Zoological )\Iuseum, Dresden, who is a Life Member of the Museum. "On page 25 antea the size of the fine specimen of the Giant Spider Crab in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology (figured) has been given at somewhat more than 12 feet between the tips 60

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