Excerpt from Noteworthy Archeological Specimens From Lower Columbia Valley In the summer of 1903 I examined the archeological collection of the Oregon Historical Society, in its museum in the City Hall at Portland. The collection contained unique sculptures as well as excellent types of rare objects supplementary to the material already forming a part of the collections in the American Museum of Nat ural History, as well as to the specimens included in the author's gatherings of that season in the field, and to those he had seen in the small collections of the region, and in the large museums of the East, such as those at Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsyl vania, and the National Museum at Washington. A loan of the original specimens for study in the Museum being greatly preferable to notes and sketches made on the spot, the Society, through its assistant secretary, Mr George H. Himes, courteously granted per mission for their shipment to New York for study, photographing and casting. The Society also liberally granted the writer permis sion to take duplicate photographs and casts to supply the needs of other students and institutions, and otherwise to use them as might be deemed desirable in furthering the cause of ethnology. Prints from the negatives and casts from the molds of the speci mens may now be obtained by students or institutions conducting researches on the North Pacific coast. The sculptures, some of which are unique, are characteristic of the region of the lower Willamette. While not attempting to explain fully what these sculptures represent, they may be regarded as of great value in showing the character of the ancient art of that section. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.