Transcriber’s note

Illustrations have been moved next to the text to which they refer. Page numbers in the list of Illustrations may not match their locations in the eBook.

Plate headings have been standardised in the format: "BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY TENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. X"

The printed text used non-standard typography which could not be replicated entirely in the eBook. In particular:

The "remarks in smaller type" referred to on p. 232 are indented in the eBook.

"e.g." has been regularised to "e. g."

The following printing errors have been corrected:

The letters identifying the elements in Fig. 653, Fig. 719 and Fig. 936 were not clearly printed.

The following are used inconsistently in the text:

On p. 127 the text refers to two characters k; only one is shown in the illustration.

The following possible errors have not been changed:

Inconsistent use of small capitals for volume numbers in the List of Works and Authors Cited has not been regularised.

The following were hyphenated at the end of lines: