In the last issue of the Minnesota Archaeologist(Vol. 8, No. 2, April, 1942) Mr. B. W. Thayer has contributed four articles on art analysis of the erstwhile Arapaho and Cheyenne of the Minnesota prairie-woodland area and the still resident Ojibwa and Red River Cree, which bid fair to challenge attention of those who were impressed, favorably or unfavorably, with some points brought out in Dr. Steward's recent article in this journal on the historical approach to archaeology. It has for some time been an open question in the opinions of students of design in the northern sweep, from the Great Lakes to the Rockies, in how far certain distinctive traits of Plains Algonkian culture might have been carried over from older woodland residence. Mr. Thayer deals with some characteristics, interpretable by him as signs of the same, present in the moccasin structure and designing of figures in historic beadwork.