Harlan I. Smith

A PREHISTORIC EARTHWORK IN THE HAIDA INDIAN AREA

NEAR Rose Point, the most northeastern part of Graham Island of the Queen Charlotte Group, in the Haida Indian area of British Columbia, is an unusual prehistoric earthwork. Published accounts of earthworks in western North America are so rare that a note of this one may be useful. The information was collected during a brief visit made in 1919 for the Victoria Memorial Museum. The exact location is about a mile and a half southward from the limit of trees on Rose Point. It is about a quarter of a mile east by north, on the trail from Mr. Bradleys ranch house to the east coast on a wooded flat among steep wooded moving dunes possibly thirty feet high. The site is probably a little northeast

STONE HAMMERS OR PESTLES OF THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA

The stone hammers or pestles of the northwest coast of America represent a variety of types of peculiar distribution. An examination of the specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, reveals the following facts: The different types of these hammers have many features in common. Their use for driving wedges causes many of them to have concave bases, while those used for rubbing have become but slightly convex on this surface. They usually have a welldefined head, which in general is cylindrical, and extends some