22 REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



The number of separate lots of material received for examination 

 and report amounted to 790, of which about 64 per cent were geo- 

 logical and 28 per cent biological. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Ethnology. — Thirty-nine accessions, comprising 1,457 specimens, 

 constituted the additions to this division. Gifts were more numerous 

 than usual, the more important ones being the following : From the 

 Misses Elizabeth L., Mary and Grace Lyon, of Baltimore, Md., 641 

 examples of Japanese art assembled about 30 years ago by the late 

 J. Crawford Lyon, and consisting of helmets, helmet crests and face 

 pieces, stirrups, spears, staffs, sword guards and ornaments, knife 

 handles, etc. ; from Dr. W. L. Abbott, a series of baskets, bark cloth, 

 sword hilts in process of making, quivers for blowgun darts, musical 

 instruments, and other objects, collected in Dutch Borneo by Mr. 

 H. C. Raven; from Mr. Herbert E. Winlock, of the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art, examples of modern Egyptian clothing collected by 

 the donor; and from Mrs. Estelle Palmer, of Chicago, 111., a collec- 

 tion of objects from the Plains Indians, including an historical paint- 

 ing on elk sldn, a curious old saddle, bow, arrow, Imives, ornaments, 

 etc., which had belonged to the late Maj. George Henry Palmer, U. S. 

 Army. An important addition, obtained by purchase, consists of 

 musical instruments, household articles, tools and other objects from 

 the Ute Indians of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, southeastern 

 Utah, which are especially valuable on account of the care with 

 which they were brought together. 



The principal loans comprised ornaments, costumes, pouches, 

 baskets, a chicken trap, a two-headed drum and a variety of weap- 

 ons, from the Bagobo tribe of southern Mindanao, P. I., received 

 from Miss Elizabeth H. and Miss Sarah S. Metcalf, of Worcester, 

 Mass.; ethnological objects from Abyssinia, consisting of a number 

 of royal presents given to the lender during his stay at the Court 

 of Menelek, such as spears, silver overlaid shields, a dagger, basket, 

 ornaments, etc., received from Mr. Hoffman Philip; and a large 

 series of ethnological and historical material, besides objects of art, 

 from Japan, China, Egypt and Europe, received from Mrs. Allan 

 McLane, of Washington. 



The most important work of the year was the preparation of 

 exhibits for the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, all of 

 which will be returned to the Museum. The principal features are 

 four family lay-figin^e groups, corresponding in type to those now ex- 

 hibited in the Museum, and representing the Carib Indians of British 

 Guiana, the Dyaks of Borneo, the Zulu-Kaffirs of South Africa and 

 the western Eskimo. Accompanjdng them are ten village groups. 



