gift of Miss Edna H. Bahr, we were pleased to receive a complete 

 fine-quality costume of a Manchurian lady from Mrs. Joel Baker 

 and a string of ancient and very rare stone and glass beads (found 

 in a tomb in southwest China) from Dr. David C. Graham, a 

 Museum Contributor. Other materials received by the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology are listed at the end of this Report. 



Care of the Collections— Anthropology 



The work of cleaning, checking, and moving the South American 

 collection into Room 35 was completed by Custodian Liss under 

 the direction of Curator Collier. Assisting in this project during 

 the year were Miss Ann Levin (Museum Fellow), Alfredo Evange- 

 lista (Thomas J. Dee Fellow), and Robert G. Axelrod (Antioch 

 College student). Work was continued in checking and rearrang- 

 ing the Mexican collection that is being moved into the same store- 

 room. Expansion and reorganization of the study collection of 

 textiles of the world was continued. Assistant Howard Anderson 

 moved the Andaman and Nicobar Island collections from the Pa- 

 cific Research Laboratory into the India-Southeast Asia storeroom 

 as part of the program to consolidate geographic and cultural areas. 

 Also placed in this storeroom was material from India, Ceylon, 

 Andaman Islands, and Nicobar Islands removed from exhibition 

 in Hall L. During the year portions of the study-storage mate- 

 rials in the Pacific Research Laboratory were rearranged and inven- 

 tories were made of all drawer contents. This task virtually com- 

 pleted rearrangements that were begun in 1953. 



In the Division of Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnology Curator 

 Starr and Dr. Hoshien Tchen, Consultant, East Asian Collection, 

 continued to process the Museum's excellent collection of Chinese 

 ink-rubbings. Apart from the painstaking research involved in 

 identifying and cataloguing these rubbings, research in which Dr. 

 Tchen contributed largely, the work included repair of the fragile 

 paper, some of which is several hundred years old. Miss Ellen N. 

 Chase and Miss Susan Cook (Antioch College students) showed 

 unusual sensitivity and skill in repairing and otherwise handling 

 these rare and delicate materials. The work on rubbings, however, 

 was not done at the expense of other materials in the collection, 

 for with the excellent assistance of Miss Cook, the systematic or- 

 ganization and housing of the large collection of Asiatic coins were 

 completed. Robert Axelrod completed the reorganization of the 

 Japanese and Korean sections of the storage rooms. 



49 



