sister, Miss Frances Del Mar, author of A Year Among the Maori. 

 When Evett D. Hester visited the central Philippine Islands on his 

 trip to Bangkok (see page 50) he secured for the Museum a fine 

 collection of ancient shell and paste-glass bracelets from Cebu in the 

 Visayan Islands. Robert Trier, of McKenzie Bridge, Oregon, gave 

 a fine Indonesian batik of unusual design. Captain and Mrs. Fuller, 

 of London, presented an ancient Egyptian bracelet of gold in memory 

 of their daughter Patience. 



Received as a gift from Professor H. 0. Beyer, Honorary Member 

 of the Museum, are sixty-three prehistoric stone implements from 

 the Philippine Islands, a representative collection that provides the 

 Museum with the largest and most scientifically valuable assemblage 

 of such tools in the United States. Through exchange with the 

 Government Museum, Madras, India, a collection of paleolithic 

 implements has been added to this Museum's collection. These 

 handaxes, cleavers, and chopping tools of considerable antiquity, 

 dating from the Middle Pleistocene, afford a rare opportunity to 

 study some of the earliest tools made by man. Other materials 

 received by the Department of Anthropology during the year are 

 listed at the end of this Report (see page 118). 



Care of the Collections— Anthropology 



Under the direction of Custodian Liss, archaeological and ethnolog- 

 ical specimens from India and related areas of southeast Asia were 

 moved from the third floor to a new storeroom on the ground floor. 

 This work, which included checking and reorganizing the specimens 

 by geographic location, was carried on by Richard Wolfe, Antioch 

 College student. Work was continued in rearranging and checking 

 the Middle and South American collections that are being moved 

 into Room 35. Assisting in this project under the supervision of 

 Curator Collier and Custodian Liss were, during the year. Miss 

 Hattula Moholy-Nagy (Museum Fellow), Richard Wolfe and Barry 

 Alpher (Antioch College students), and Alfredo Evangelista (Thomas 

 J. Dee Fellow in Anthropology). Purchase of additional steel 

 storage-cabinets for the study collection of textiles of the world has 

 made possible an expansion and reorganization of this collection, 

 which work will be carried on into the coming year. 



The primary effort in the Division of Asiatic Archaeology and 

 Ethnology during the year was directed toward cataloguing and 

 organizing the Museum's excellent collection of Chinese rubbings 

 (see page 46). This highly specialized work, among the first of its 



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