Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . assing afterward back into the archeologic field; but tliis order provesinconvenient (as Just indicated), and special studies of certain phasesof art must receive first attention. Tiie ]iresent i)aper is therefoiedevoted to examination of the derivation, manufacture, nature, andphice in time and culture of the stone im])lements of the tidewaterprovince—the province of -John Smith. This will be followed by otherstudies, or by a single paper, on the aboriginal history and generalarcheology of the same area
Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . assing afterward back into the archeologic field; but tliis order provesinconvenient (as Just indicated), and special studies of certain phasesof art must receive first attention. Tiie ]iresent i)aper is therefoiedevoted to examination of the derivation, manufacture, nature, andphice in time and culture of the stone im])lements of the tidewaterprovince—the province of -John Smith. This will be followed by otherstudies, or by a single paper, on the aboriginal history and generalarcheology of the same area. The Chesapeake tidewater province lies to the eastward of the heavydotted line on the map presented in plate i. This is the fall line, wherethe streams descend from the Piedmont plateau to the tidewater lowland. THE ART REMAINS STUDIED The art remains of a vanished people available for the archeologistconqirise all material forms shaped or in any way modified by theirhands, whether from design or from the incidents of use. There are BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. V. VIEW FROM THE BED OF THE RIVULET, SHOWING EXPLOITATION PITSThe first figure is at the beginning of the trench, and the th;rd figure is at aboui the fortieth foot
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