FOREWORD

HE observations recorded in this
memoir are based on a note-
worthy collection of jade objects
‘gathered by Lieutenant Emmons during
many years of study among the tribes of
British Columbia and Alaska, together
with a few specimens belonging to other
collections. The articles of jade assembled
by Lieutenant Emmons, which he has
deposited for exhibition in the Museum of
the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
are of importance not only by reason of
the wide range of finished implements and
ornaments which they include, but also
because of the number of worked bowlders
and fragments that exhibit the processes
of cutting and shaping. On this account
the author has had exceptional facilities
for conducting the study whose results
this Museum now has the privilege of
making available to students.
GrorGcE G. HEYE,
Director.

INDIAN NOTES