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Mexico and Arizona. This collection is especially valuable because 

 it contains southwestern types which the Museum lacked. Note- 

 worthy are seven pottery bowls from the Mimbres valley, a locality 

 in New Mexico in which realistic art reached a high development. 

 Likewise of interest are four pottery dishes from southern Arizona, 

 the region in which flourished the famed Hohokam culture. In 

 return for this material. Field Museum sent seventeen South 

 American archaeological objects. 



The Museum's South Pacific collections were enriched by a 

 valuable gift from Mr. Templeton Crocker, of San Francisco, of 

 835 ethnographical objects, nine phonograph records, and 325 

 photographs. This was the more welcome as the major portion 

 consisted of representative collections from the little-known islands 

 of Anuda, Rennell, and Bellona, previously unrepresented in the 

 Museum. There were also many objects from other islands, including 

 a large, finely carved Marquesan bowl, ornamented mats from Puka 

 Puka, and various objects from Samoa, Sikaiaiia, the eastern Solo- 

 mons, and the Santa Cruz group. 



Through an exchange with the Mexican National Museum of 

 Archaeology, History and Ethnography it was possible to fill a 

 number of gaps in the Museum's collections from Mexico. The 

 most spectacular object thus acquired was a model of the very 

 ornate Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl at San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico. 

 This, like the previously acquired models of a palace at Mitla and 

 a pyramid at Uaxactun, is valuable in illustrating the architectural 

 achievements of the aboriginal civilizations in Latin America. The 

 new model measures more than six feet in length. 



Among other objects acquired through this exchange were three 

 fine funerary urns decorated with large seated deities in relief, 

 belonging to the Zapotecan culture of Oaxaca, Mexico; a representa- 

 tive collection of Zapotecan pottery figurines; and several Maya 

 pottery figurines from the island of Jaina, off the coast of Mexico. 

 To the Mexican museum there were sent from Field Museum, in 

 this exchange, seventeen archaeological objects of the southwestern 

 United States, 104 European archaeological objects, and fifty-four 

 from South America. 



An important gift was received from Mr. Harry T. Getty and 

 Dr. A. E. Douglass, both of the University of Arizona, at Tucson. 

 This collection consists of twenty polished cross sections of wooden 

 beams from various dated Southwestern ruins; a tubular borer, such 

 as is used by dendrologists in obtaining small wood samples from 



