REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1&20. 50 



ments, art textiles, and period costumes. Additions to the collections 

 compare favorably with those of preceding years, although the 

 limited fund available for purchase has made the acquirement of 

 important collections by this means impossible. The World War also 

 has appreciably interfered with the usual current of accessions 

 However, some valuable material collected during the period of 

 military occupation of the Philippines was received, and mention 

 may be made of specimens procured by General Jacob Kline, 

 17, S. A., and presented by his daughters, Mrs. Thomas F. Dwyer 

 imd Miss Kline; a number of baskets, hats, etc., collected by Major 

 General Joseph C. Breckenridge, U. S. A., and presented by him 

 through his daughter. Miss Lucy H, Breckenridge, and interesting 

 weapons presented by the late Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Elliott, 

 U. S. A. A collection of baskets, 265 in number, especially rich in 

 Channel and other California Mission Indian and Navaho specimens, 

 was received as a gift from Miss Ella F. Hubby, of Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia. There were acquired by the bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. 

 Stevens several hundred specimens of silver, pewter, brass, pottery, 

 etc. The collections also include many religious objects and small 

 objects of art, which have been assigned to the proper divisions. It 

 is observed that accessions from the North American Indians Are be- 

 coming increasingly rare and few accessions other than baskets were 

 received. 



Much attention was given to the work of preparing and installing 

 collections. Numerous additions w^ere made and the number of 

 previous installations were perfected. The collections illustrating 

 the progress of illumination were set up for the first time in their 

 entirety, and the rare California mission baskets of the Hubby collec- 

 tion placed on exhibition, A la}'^ figure group of the largest size rep- 

 resenting Kiowa children at play was completed and placed on 

 exhibition, and another figure was added to the group of Zuni 

 Indian potters. 



" The collections as a whole are in excellent condition. During the 

 year the glass in the exhibition cases was cleaned and needed rear- 

 rangement of the collections made at the same time, and improve- 

 ment was made in the preservation of storage specimens by the 

 addition of dust-proof cases in the attic. 



The curator began and brought near to completion papers on the 

 races of man as illustrated by the lay figure groups in the Museum 

 and on the synoptic series illustrating the historj'^ of invention, both 

 studies answering a widespread demand for the educational institu- 

 tions of the United States. 



The exhibits of the division are rapidly becoming congested 

 through the introduction in the space originally assigned to ethnology 

 exhibits of Old World archeology and religions and of the National 



