Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . ose the as-sembling of animal remains from the shell-heaps of the Alainecoast, eastward from Penobscot Bay, in order to ascertain whetherthe fauna at the time the heaps were accumulating was difirerent fromthat now existing in the same region, a question which seemed todemand attention from the fact that an extinct species of mink hadbeen found in some of the heaps. The work was carried on byDr. F. W. True in the summer of 1910, in continuation of investi-gations of preceding years, the field of operations extending fr
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . ose the as-sembling of animal remains from the shell-heaps of the Alainecoast, eastward from Penobscot Bay, in order to ascertain whetherthe fauna at the time the heaps were accumulating was difirerent fromthat now existing in the same region, a question which seemed todemand attention from the fact that an extinct species of mink hadbeen found in some of the heaps. The work was carried on byDr. F. W. True in the summer of 1910, in continuation of investi-gations of preceding years, the field of operations extending fromSargentville, opposite Deer Isle, to Harrimans Point in Bluehill numbers of bones and teeth of mammals and other vertebrateswere obtained, as well as fragments of pottery and other objects ofhuman workmanship. A part of this territory was explored some yearsago by Major J. W. Powell and Air. Frank H. Cushing of the Bureau NO. 11 SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, I9IO-I9II 47 * *i> •? .! ,v;-4>,^,.^.u 1 l 1 •.->>^-i;-\\: ?, \. \ V , I ,\ ? :V. !4iM&Mi«MSiM0 l*iG. 50.—An Indian ^IkH-Iici|i .-n I kTiickV Hay, llancock County, liy Trtie.
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