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Excellent progress was made toward completing the installation of 

 the exhibition series. Cases were constructed for and await the final 

 preparation of lay figures for three new family groups and the re- 

 modeling of five old groups. Among special features added were a 

 FiHpino family group and two costumed figures representing a 

 Chinese and a Japanese lady. The Haida house front was removed 

 from the older Museum building, and its totem post installed at the 

 southern end of the middle hall, the slabs being temporarily placed 

 in storage; and models of the pueblo of Oraibi, the Zuni Mission church 

 and a Kiva at Jemez, N. Mex., were repaired. Constant attention 

 was paid to the protection of specimens from insect pests, whose 

 ravages have been practically held in check, and the entire collection 

 of the division is reported in good condition. 



The curator of the division. Dr. Walter Hough, completed for pub- 

 lication his report on the culture of the ancient Pueblos of the Upper 

 Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico, based on the collection pro- 

 cured by him on the Museum-Gates expedition of 1905. He also 

 began an investigation preliminary to the preparation of a descriptive 

 catalogue of the pueblo collections in the Museum, and continued his 

 studies on heating and illumination and other subjects. 



Prehistoric archeology. — A large amount of material from the shell 

 heaps of Maine, including all the orduiary implements and utensils of 

 the shoreland tribes of New England, in stone, bone, and clay, collected 

 in 1896 by Frank Hamilton Cushing for the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, was transferred to the Museum duiing last year. Two 

 important collections were received on permanent deposit from the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. The first, made by Mr. J. D. 

 McGuire, comprises, among other relics, broken and spht bones of 

 animals and birds, stone and bone implements, worked antlers, and 

 fragments of pottery, from a cave at Cavetown, Md.; breccia con- 

 tainmg bones and flint flakes, hammerstones, arrowheads, and frag- 

 ments of pottery from Hartman's Cave, Stroudsburg, Pa, ; and ham- 

 merstones, chipped blades, arrowpoints, fragments of pottery, and 

 human bones from a mound near Downsville, Va. The other, ob- 

 tained by Mr. Gerard Fowke, consists of material from an aboriguial 

 quarry site in Carter County, Ky. 



Among the gifts received were a series of typical Carib stone axes 

 and celts from Guadeloupe Island, West Indies, presented by Mr. 

 Frederick T. F, Dumont, American consul at Madrid, Spain; a small 

 earthenware vessel with incised decoration from a burial mound in 

 Frankhn Pansh, La., two large and exceptionally handsome earthen- 

 ware vessels from the Red River region of Arkansas, and a large pot- 

 tery vessel of red ware with incised decoration from a burial site in 

 Lafayette County, Ark,, donated by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Phila- 

 delphia; several stone axes and a tufa ring from a compomid near 



