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Excerpt from Sculptured Anthropoid Ape Heads: Found in or Near the Valley of the John Day River, a Tributary of the Columbia River, Oregon
The Columbia valley and its tributaries offers as rich a field to the archaeologist as it has revealed to the paleontologist, and it has been my good fortune to secure a large amount of material there, which will serve as a basis for several papers.
The present paper treats especially of three remarkable stone heads from this region, which are here figured and described for the first time.
The plates of these sculptures were made by the artotype process, being photographs in printing ink, executed by the well-known firm of E. Bierstadt of New York city. Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 are natural size, taken by him directly from the objects. Figures 5 and 6 are half natural size, also taken from the object, by an artist in Oregon, and the negative sent to Mr. Bierstadt for reproduction. I have not had the latter speci men before me in preparing the present paper, but I examined it in 1882, when I obtained the specimen represented on Plate I.
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