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armor, lacquers, fans, etc., was presented by Miss Isabel C. Freeman 

 and Mrs. B. H. Buckingham, of Washington, A sacred fire-drill of 

 wood, used in the Idzumo shrine of the great Idzumo Temple of Japan, 

 was received from Baron Senge ol the Temple through Mr. N. Tsuda, 

 directorial assistant of the Imperial Museum of Tokyo. A series of 

 specimens from the Guayaki Indians of Paraguay was contributed 

 by Mr. Frederick C. Mayntzhusen, of Yaguarazapa, Paraguay; and a 

 number of interesting weapons from East Africa were received from 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott, through Miss Gertrude Abbott, of Pliiladelphia. 

 For four Aleutian baskets of a t}^e which is becoming rare the division 

 was indebted to Mrs. L. C. Fletcher, of Washington. 



The most important collection purchased was one representing the 

 industries, now rapidly disappearing, of the Chippewa Indians of 

 IVIinnesota, which had been assembled by Mss Frances Densmore. 

 It comprises examples of looms and textile materials for making 

 belts and bags, of tools and materials for working in bark and rushes, 

 with specimens of the finished work, and of tools and tanned skins 

 used in leather work, besides rattles and other ceremonial para- 

 phernalia, an old birch-bark record, and a series of articles illustrating 

 the maple sugar industry. Among other purchases were costumes, 

 basketry, pottery, agricultural implements, and games of the Mohave 

 Indians of Arizona; two women's buckskin dresses, profusely orna- 

 mented, together with a number of tools and other articles from the 

 tribes of northern California; and numerous objects, including rare 

 examples of sacred bundles, obtained through the help of members of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology. Especiall}^ valuable w^as a large 

 series of objects, consisting of costumes, pouches, necklaces and other 

 pereonal ornaments, clubs, flutes, and baskets, collected by Mr. John 

 Ogilvie among the Indians in the interior of Dutch Guiana, South 

 America, where white men have rarely penetrated, and showing 

 no trace of extraneous influence. 



The more noteworthy loans for exhibition comprised basketry, 

 beadwork, etc., principally of the North American Indians, from 

 Mrs. L. C. Fletcher; old scrapes of beautiful weave, woven bags, and 

 Mexican ecclesiastical objects, crosses, rehquaries, amulets, paintipgs, 

 etc., from Maj. Harry S. Bryan, of Mexico City; ancient oriental 

 weapons, including sabers, scimiters, swords, yataghans, daggers, 

 pistols, and guns, from Mr. George Kennan ; and an interesting addi- 

 tion to the collection of Mrs. Julian James, consisting of numerous 

 oriental and other weapons and fabrics, fans, brocades, satins, bas- 

 ketry, ornaments, photographs, musical instruments, and lacquer and 

 tortoise-sheU work, which had in part been assembled by Theodorus 

 Bailey Myers, of New York, and Lieut. Commander T. B. M. Mason, 

 U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Mason. Mrs. JuUan James also presented a 

 number of fuie India shawls. 



