238 Field Museum of Natural History — Reports, Vol. X 



LIST OF ACCESSIONS 



department of anthropology 



American Friends of China, Chi- 

 cago: 1 brush-holder of the Emperor 

 K'ien-lung, made of Burmese padouk 

 wood with inlaid inscriptions and de- 

 signs in ivory, jade, and semi-precious 

 stones, dated a.d. 1736 — China (gift). 



AsHER, Dr. Harry H., Chicago: 3 

 human lower molar teeth of unusual 

 type — American whites, Chicago, Illi- 

 nois (gift). 



Ayer, Edward E. and Emma B., 

 Estate of, Chicago: 18 blankets — 

 southwestern United States and Mexico 

 (gift). 



Bebb, William, Oakland City, In- 

 diana: about 60 fragments of flint arti- 

 facts — Fort Gibson, Oklahoma (gift). 



Beddoe:s, Hubert, Chicago: 1 folio 

 album containing 134 large photographs 

 — China, Japan, and Java (gift). 



Bennett, Miss Helen B., Los 

 Angeles, California: 25 stone artifacts: 

 knives, scrapers, and projectiles — Salt 

 Cliffs, Arkansas (gift). 



Birren, Mrs. Joseph, Chicago: 1 

 stone ax — Illinois; 1 boomerang — Aus- 

 tralia; 2 wooden war clubs, 1 conch- 

 shell trumpet — Polynesia; 1 muzzle 

 with bridle — Spain; 1 cotton baldric 

 — India (gift). 



Boulton, Mrs. Laura C, Chicago: 

 18 musical instruments — west Africa 

 (gift). 



Carter, Mrs. Dagny, Peiping, 

 China: 4 fragments of Chou pottery 

 and 1 crupper damaskeened iron — Sui- 

 yiian, Shensi Province, China (gift). 



Crocker, Templeton, San Francisco, 

 California: 1 carved bowl— Marquesas 

 Islands; 24 mats, baskets, ornaments, 

 fish-hooks, etc. — Puka Puka and Samoa; 

 810 examples of weapons, clothing, and 

 fishing, household, personal and cere- 

 monial objects — chiefly from south- 

 eastern Solomon Islands, Rennell, Bel- 

 lona, Sikaiana, Swallow group, and 

 Anuda Islands; 9 phonograph records 

 and 325 photographs — Polynesia and 

 Melanesia (gift). 



Cross, Miss Grace Brewster, Chi- 

 cago: 1 feather headband (lei), 1 shell 

 headband, 1 string of crabs'-eyes or 

 vine beads (Abrus precatorius), 2 

 strings of seed beads — Honolulu, Hawaii 

 (gift). 



Cutting, C. Suydam, New York: 1 

 bag of monkey skin, 1 bag of goral skin 

 — Upper Burma (gift). 



Douglass, Dr. A. E., and Harry T. 

 Getty, Tucson, Arizona: 32 polished 

 cross sections of logs from various dated 

 ruins, charts, photographs, and a boring 

 tool — Arizona and New Mexico (gift). 



Duke, Miss T., Chicago: 1 cactus 

 girdle of fiber, 4 fiber moccasins, 2 stone 

 arrowheads — Rio Grande River bank, 

 18 miles northeast of Del Rio, Texas 

 (gift). 



Felix, Benjamin B., Chicago: 48 

 Chinese coins and 2 Japanese coins — 

 China and Japan (gift). 



Field Museum of Natural History: 

 Collected by J. Eric Thompson 

 (leader, Carnegie Institution-Reld Mu- 

 seum Joint Expedition to British Hon- 

 duras): 13 pottery whistles, figurines; 

 69 pottery vessels, disks; 115 lots (about 

 6,000 pieces) of pottery sherds; 14 stone 

 knives and spear-heads; 38 obsidian 

 and 5 jade objects; 21 shell ornaments 

 and beads; 13 spindle whorls of stone 

 and pottery; 1 pearl; 1 textile; 2 mirrors; 

 8 miscellaneous objects such as carbon 

 and paint for identification; 14 skeletal 

 pieces. Total, 6,199 pieces — San Jose, 

 Orange Walk District, British Honduras. 



Collected by Field Museum-Oxford 

 University Joint Expedition to Meso- 

 potamia (Marshall Field Fund): 21 

 cases of Sumerian, Babylonian, and 

 Sasanian objects — Kish, Mesopotamia. 



Collected by Paul S. Martin (leader. 

 Field Museum Archaeological Expedi- 

 tion to the Southwest): 38 pieces of 

 pottery, 3,477 potsherds, 8 human 

 skeletons, 5 arrowheads, 10 bone awls, 

 27 pieces of roof beams (shipped to Gila 

 Pueblo), 33 pieces of animal bones, and 

 3 pendants — Lowry ruin, Ackmen, 

 Colorado. 



