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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (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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2o6 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL distribution of these forms that is of primary importance, whether or not their interrelationships be closer thanjn the case of the first mentioned species. It is intended to make a statistical examination of the material collected, and of the strength of inheritance in the case o color and form characters as determined by the correlation between the adults and their young. A full report must await such an extended study. Of the live snails, of which there are now more than 8,000, it may be said that the adults are now feeding and producing young, in some cases four months since their collection; the adolescents are also feeding and growing, and, if opportunity permits, will serve for the study of inheritance in direct and hybrid lines. Henry Edward Cramptox.
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III.—THE EXPEDITION TO THE BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION. URING the past summer the writer made another visit to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in the United States to secure further information as to the ceremonies and industries of this interesting tribe of Plains Indians. The work was quite successful and the IMuseum has now a large collection with full ethnological notes covering the whole range of their culture. A number of interesting survivals of ancient industries were observed. In an out-of-the-way camp some w^omen were dressing cow-skins with broken stones instead of the native-made metal tools now in use. For removing the hair a pebble with a broken edge was used, the stone being held in the hand and a glancing blow delivered upon the skin as it lay upon the ground. While this method requires more time than that employing metal tools, it has an advantage in that the danger of cutting into the texture is avoided. In former times the skin was reduced to the required thickness by scrapers flaked from quartzite boulders. In another camp an old man gave a demonstration of a type of cooking often employed by the buffalo hunting Indians when on the war-path, a method that may at one time have been the usual manner of cooking. At the demonstration witnessed this

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