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five and one-half feet, as revealed by the skeletons, is further proof of kinship to the Amos or nearby tribes of Kamchatka. All of the relics above mentioned can be seen at the private and free museum at the photograph gallery of James G. Crawford in Albany, Oregon. Not only those but numerous relics from other burial mounds are in Mr. Crawford's museum, and comprise an instructive study of the prehistoric races. Among the most interesting are emblems of phallic worship also found in the burial mounds of the Willamette valley. The most conspicuous being a Phallus and a Yoni, emblems of procreation, and earthly symbols of the Sun God, the father of all life, as the devotees of sun worship believe. Phallacism is still a religious faith and now in practice in the remotest parts of India.