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^[[1]  Mason (Otis Tufon.) Sumary of Progress in Anthropol-gy.[[Strikethrough]] Report of the [[Strikethrough]]Smithsonian [[Strikethrough]] Institution,1893 pp.601-629

The object of this paper is to present in a few pages the progress made in the various departments of Anthropology du-
ring the year [[strikethrough]] of [[strikethrough]] 1893.

[[^2]] Mason(Otis Tufton.) North America Bows, Arrows and Quivers. Reports of the Smithsonian Institution,1893, pp. 631-680, [[strikethrough]] and plates [[/strikethrough]] 37-94.

The object if this paper is to study the manufacture, the ethnographic, and the geographic distribution of all the types of bows, arrows and quivers among the North American tribes. The plan has been to treat these objects as specimens of natural history, ^[[and]] to consider their structure, function and distribution on the line of environment and of evolution of elaboration in a series of explanatory pages. Each separate pieces is described as minutely as possible, so as a render the [[underlined]]specimen^[[s]] in question types for future [[/underlined]]investigation. 

^[[3]] Mason ( Otis Tufton.) Similar Inventions in Areas Wide Apart. Sciences, New York, 1895,^[[(]] N^[[ew]]. S^[[eries]]. Vol. 1, pp. 235-[[strikethrough]] 6 [[/strikethough]] ^[[236]].

This paper calls attention to the wide dispersion of a weaving-frame or harness consisting of a series of slates, each one piered in the middle.   The warp threads pass alternately between the slats and through the holes and this enables the weaver to shift the warp. 

The question is raised whether the Pueblo Indians invented this apparatus [[underlined]] or received it from the Europeans. [[/underlined]] 

Mason (Otis Tufton.) The distribution of Sledges. This article calls attention to the fact that no sledge, snowshoe or google has ever been discovered in South America.