Some developed weavings were dug out of the Etowah mounds near Cartersville, Georgia, and a few well preserved examples of early weaving were discovered also in the Seip Mound of Ross County, Ohio. Owing to the chemical reaction of copper breastplates which were buried at the same time, and to their acting precisely in the manner of the acids in the European bogs, they were kept in quite as good a condition as the Baltic textiles, although only small fragments were preserved. The cloth fabric in those cases shows mauve colors with tan designs produced probably by dyes made with minerals. It may be that stamps were used for applying the design. If, however, any parallel between North America and Europe should be drawn as to the importance of finds which might be used for the purpose of fixing dates for steps in human culture, it would be necessary at present to refer to the prehistoric Southwestern basketry rather than to the aforementioned items of American textiles. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ned J. Burns, "Preservation of the Mammoth Cave Mummy. The Museum News, Vol. XVII, No. 9, November 1, 1939, p. 8. 24. Georg Girke, Die Tracht der Germanen (Mannus-Bibliothek, Leipzig, 1922), Vol. 23 Hans Hahne, "Ueber Moorleichen der Provinz Hannover." Jahrbuch des Provinzialmuseums Hannover, 1911. K. H. Jacob-Friesen, Einfuehrung in Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Hildesheim, 1931. J. Martin, "Beitraege zur Moorleichenforschung. Mannus, Zeitschrift fuer Vorgeschichte, 1924. Johanna Mestorf, 42 u. 47 Bericht des Museums fuer vaterländische Kiel, 1900-1907. Frank H. H. Roberts, "Archeological Altertuener, Remains in the Whitewater District of Eastern Arizona. Part I: House Types." Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 121, Smithsonian Institution, 1939. G. Schlabow, 3500 Jahre alte germanische Trachten, Neumuenster, 1934. H. C. Shetrone, The Moundbuilders, D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., New York, 1931. W. von Stokar, Spinnen und Weben bei den Germanen (Mannus-Bibliothek, Leipzig, 1938), Vol. 59. ILLUSTRATIONS Reconstructions, p. 19, and skeleton, p. 21, Jacob-Friesen, pp. cit., 170. Loom, p. 20, and trousers, p. 21, Stokar, op. cit., 79, 120. Shoe, p. 22, Hans Hahne, "Die Moorleichenfunde der Provinz Hannover." MannusZeitschrift fuer Vorgeschichte, II. Ergänzungs-Band, 1911. nagging its nagging its COMO It is a handy device for the pliment-starved, and The Review, ever human, has recourse to it this month as a result of a commendatory note on John I. Neasmith which arrived by telegram: "ARTICLE BY NEASMITH IM JUST AN No. 2 IDLE SUMMER CAMP IS EXCELLENT. DESIRE PLACE IDEA EXPRESSED BEFORE 4,200 CAMP DIRECTOR READERS OF CAMPING WORLD MAGAZINE. CAN YOU GIVE PERMISSION FOR REPRINTING WITH FULL CREDIT? WANT TO INCLUDE IN CURRENT ISSUE. WIRE REPLY. Braving the risk of an accusation of readers, The Review repeats a request already made several times on this page. It is addressed to all those who possess early numbers of our bulletin, but who have no desire to maintain a permanent file. Our distributable supply of the first issues, particularly Vol. I, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (July, August and September, 1938), was exhausted many months ago. There also is a scarcity of Vol. II, No. 1 (January, 1939). We have a waiting list of a good many university, state and public libraries which lack those numbers and we feel that such repositories should receive special consideration because of the farreaching services they perform. The Superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, sent to us this month a series of duplicate issues found in his file. Requested numbers were transferred immediately to Cornell University, which had priority on the waiting list. We are aware that it is Indian-giving, but we should welcome similar returns from other parks, monuments and individuals in all cases which duplicate or unwanted early issues are available. TRADE In the East it is "trade last"; in the Deepest South it is "last-go trade". Both mean: "You report something good on me, because I've just heard a Number Oner on you". L. NOEL BOOTH, EDITOR." Editor Booth had telegraphic reference to Mr. Neasmith's article in last month's Review. It now is incumbent upon Mr. Neasmith to extend his external auditory apparatus to maximum length to pick up a "last-go" for The Review. ACHIEVEMENT One of The Review's visitors this month was a modest gentleman who is destined to add to add materially to the miscellaneous contributions which the Service has made to America's knowledge of itself. He was Joseph S. Hall, Columbia University English Fellow and Service Collaborator. In his luggage Mr. Hall had some 140 double-disc aluminum or acetate recordings of the speech of about 100 older residents of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. All were made from June of last year up to the first few days of this month. There are interviews, anecdotes, kitchen and moonshine recipes, bear hunts, superstitions, square dances and songs and ballads. Aside from its great values in the somewhat technical field of linguistics, Mr. Hall's collection offers a precious by-product which should be of lasting importance in the interesting study of Southern Appalachian folklore. H. R. A. OUR BOUQUET CORNER The Letter Box I desire to take this occasion to compliment you upon the excellent article which appears in the last issue of The Regional Review by Roy Edgar Appleman, headed "The Star Spangled Banner at Fort McHenry." Each one of our members, I am certain, would be very much interested if he could read this article concerning the origin of the National Anthem. Our Society celebrated the 125th anniversary of the writing of the poem last September, so that the time is appropriate for the article referred to. Would it be possible for you to mail a copy to the membership of the General Society of the War of 1812? . May I again express the sentiment that the work • of the dis National Park Service is of ce7 i tinct and immeasurable value to the public welfare. MILO FREDERICK MCALPIN, General Society WINTER BIRDS OF ACADIA BY MAURICE SULLIVAN, Park Naturalist, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine There is not a sound save the wind in the spruces and pines and firs. The pure white new-fallen snow lies a foot deep on the level. It is a dry fluffy snow, each flake a perfect star, as if the heavens had sent down a shower from the Milky Way. The music of the wind in the trees is punctuated occasionally by a dull thud and a swish as some overburdened bough is relieved of its accumulation of snow and springs back to its normal position. Fine tracks of some mouse or larger tracks of the red squirrel are the only evidence that any animal has penetrated the deep spruce forest, dark, silent and deserted. PURPLE FINCHES AT ACADIA If Champlain had first landed here in winter we well could understand the reason for calling this place Mount Desert Island. The birds which are so numerous in summer are now far away in warmer regions where the food is more plentiful. It is lonely; the forest needs inhabitants; one's own footfall is muffled. Thoughts of far-off places, of isolated lighthouses, of early pioneers, invade the mind. Two branches creak faintly, almost unheard. The "Ti, ti, ti, ti" comes nearer, a busy Golden-crowned Kinglet searching everywhere for insect eggs. If two hen's eggs and three slices of bacon suffice me for a meal, do you suppose two moth eggs and three dried spiders satisfy his hunger? I doubt it. He has to maintain a higher temperature than I do, and is far more active. He probably consumes hundreds of insects eggs and dead or numbed specimens every day. And a good service he renders the forests. From the rear a Chickadee suddenly introduces itself with "Chickadee-dee-dee." It is the state bird of Maine and one of the most common winter land birds in Acadia. In all probability these two birds are all that will be seen among the evergreens, although an erratic band of Crossbills, either White-winged or Red, may appear. The winter birds of Acadia are not dwellers of the deep forest, but frequent the more open hardwood areas, the fields and course, the unfrozen ocean. There probably are more gardens, and, of species of land birds on Mount Desert Island now than there were when the island was in |