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Mrs. Frank S. Johnson, of Pasadena, California, daughter of the 

 late Edward E. Ayer, presented a beautiful mandarin coat from China. 



An interesting figure of the god Vishnu riding on the mythical 

 bird Garuda was given by Mr. Allyn D. Warren, of Chicago. This 

 gift shows the fine wood-carving art of the modern Balinese. 



From the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to 

 Mesopotamia twenty-one cases of Sumerian, Babylonian, and 

 Sasanian objects excavated at Kish, Iraq, were received. 



The African ethnological collections have been enriched by the 

 addition of twenty-eight west African objects which are the gift 

 of Mrs. Rudyerd Boulton, of Chicago. The objects are of particular 

 value because they form a unit representing the musical skill of 

 west African Negroes. Instruments of percussion, wind instruments, 

 and those played by strings are all represented. A human figure, 

 carved in wood, from Dahomey, is of especial value because such 

 objects, associated with religious beliefs and practices, are difficult 

 to obtain. 



cataloguing, inventorying, and labeling — ANTHROPOLOGY 



Of the forty-two accessions received during the year, thirty have 

 been entered. Seven accessions of previous years have also been 

 entered. 



Cataloguing has been continued as usual, the number of catalogue 

 cards prepared during the year totaling 4,032. The total number of 

 catalogue cards entered from the opening of the first inventory 

 volume is 211,407. 



The catalogue cards prepared are distributed as follows: archae- 

 ology and ethnology of North America, 1,771; archaeology and 

 ethnology of Central and South America, 750; archaeology and eth- 

 nology of China, Tibet, and Japan, 126; ethnology of Africa, 24; 

 ethnology of Melanesia, 858; ethnology of India, 489; ethnology of 

 the Near East, 2; ethnology of Polynesia, 5; ethnology of Australia, 

 1; ethnology of Dutch East Indies, 1; ethnology of Europe, 1; 

 physical anthropology, 4. Most of these cards have been entered 

 in the inventory volumes, which number fifty-seven. 



A total of 9,117 labels for use in exhibition cases was supplied 

 by the Division of Printing. These labels are distributed among the 

 collections as follows: Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall, 682; Indians 

 of California, 18; Southwestern United States, 72; Central America, 

 762; South America, 1,477; China and Tibet, 3,485; Melanesia, 

 464; Hall of the Stone Age of the Old World, 6; Africa, 2,016; Malay 



