Popular science monthly . Fhoto Ccnvral Mounted on a special platform forty feet high on the battleship Texas is a three-inchnaval gun adjusted so that a high angle of elevation can be attained. It is said to bethe forerunner of a new type of anti-aircraft gun with which tliose most interested in ournaval and military preparedness will adorn the first- line battleships of the future 057 The Indians Conception of Ansfcls and Devils Below: Two totem poleswhich formerly markedthe headquarters of tribesin Old Mangel, the Indians thesedesignated a religious aswell as a clannish bond


Popular science monthly . Fhoto Ccnvral Mounted on a special platform forty feet high on the battleship Texas is a three-inchnaval gun adjusted so that a high angle of elevation can be attained. It is said to bethe forerunner of a new type of anti-aircraft gun with which tliose most interested in ournaval and military preparedness will adorn the first- line battleships of the future 057 The Indians Conception of Ansfcls and Devils Below: Two totem poleswhich formerly markedthe headquarters of tribesin Old Mangel, the Indians thesedesignated a religious aswell as a clannish bond At left: A woodenmask carved and paintedin the elaborate styledear to the heart of theIroquois Indians and usedby a false-face society. A typical ceremo-nial mask of theIroquois. Thesemasks, which seemonly hideous, havea tribal significance


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