DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS. 



REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 

 By W. H. Holmes, Head Curator. 



In preparing the report of the Department of Anthropology for 

 the year the reports furnished by the several curators have been 

 freely utilized and in each case due credit has been given for the 

 work accomplished. In some of the divisions the work of the year 

 has been conducted under exceptional difficulties due to the occupa- 

 tion of certain exhibition halls of the Natural History Building by 

 the War Risk Bureau. The exhibits belonging to theise halls had to 

 be stored in other exhibition halls which were thus necessarily closed 

 to the curators as well as to the public. It is gi-atifying to observe, 

 however, that the restoration of the exhibits to their places has 

 afforded the opportunity of making noteworthy improvements in 

 their installation. 



It may not be inappropriate to note in this place that the head 

 curator's lifelong interest in art. has led during past years to a con- 

 sidei^able expansion of his duties ; first to the care of the art works 

 and to consideration of the art side of installation generally, and 

 finally to his appointment as curator of the rapidly developing 

 National Gallery of Art — a work which has added greatly to his 

 responsibilities. In the 'administration of the two departments the 

 head curator has been assisted by Miss Louise A. Eosenbusch, re- 

 corder. 



The additions to this department were received in 400 accessions, 

 with a total of 15,421 specimens, of which 3,088 were loans or de- 

 posits, classified and distributed as follows: Division of etlmology, 

 1,140 specimens; art textiles collections, 62 specimens; section of 

 musical instruments, 2 specimens ; section of ceramics, 476 specimens ; 

 division of physical anthropology, 233 specimens ; division of Ameri- 

 can archeology, 1,718 specimens; division of Old World archeology, 

 119 spocimcns; division of history, 10,274 specimens; historical cos- 

 tumes collections, 82 specimens; division of mechanical technology, 

 182 specimens; division of graphic arts, 1,127 specimens; section of 

 photography, 6 specimens. There were also received from various 



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