Jan. 1935 



Annual Report of the Director 



239 



Collected by Henry Field (leader, 

 Field Museum Anthropological Expedi- 

 tion to the Near East, 1934): 500 flint 

 implements of paleolithic and neolithic 

 types from North Arabian desert, 

 Kurdistan, and Persia; 10 basalt blocks 

 of Himyaritic inscriptions from Trans- 

 jordania; 2 fragments of twelfth century 

 Mohammedan vessels from Beled Sin- 

 jar, Iraq; approximately 7,000 photo- 

 graphs; 800 hair samples — Near East 

 and Russia. 



Collected by Miss Malvina Hoffman 

 (Expedition to Asia): 3 nail protectors 

 of enameled silver — China. 



Transferred from Department of 

 Zoology: 1 skeleton of female gibbon — 

 southeast Borneo; 1 skeleton of female 

 chimpanzee — south Cameroon, west 

 Africa. 



Purchases: 1 pair of Navaho mocca- 

 sins — New Mexico; 1 complete skeleton 

 of a Chinese. 



Gann, Mrs. M. E. L., Lake Forest, 

 Illinois: 2 strings of Russian blue glass 

 trade beads — Alaska (gift). 



Gila Pueblo (museum), Globe, 

 Arizona: 30 specimens of prehistoric 

 painted pottery — Rio Mimbres and 

 other localities of New Mexico (ex- 

 change). 



Ito, T., Chicago: 3 samples of old 

 fabrics — Japan (exchange); 2 volumes 

 of Chinese wood-engravings illustrating 

 agriculture and sericulture, Japanese 

 edition of 1807 — China -Japan (gift). 



Johnson, Mrs. Frank S., Pasadena, 

 California: 1 Chinese mandarin coat — 

 China (gift). 



Keep, Chauncey, Estate of, 

 Chicago: bronze heads of Toda, Berber, 

 San Ildefonso Pueblo woman; bronze 

 bust of Bontoc Igorot (also plaster casts 

 of same); bronze busts of an Alpine, a 

 Zulu woman, a Turk, a Jicarilla Apache, 

 a Carib, and a Korean; life-size figure 

 of a Navaho (gift). 



KouCHAKJi, Fahim, New York: 1 

 glass pitcher with Christian designs, 

 fourth century a.d. — Syria (exchange). 



Mandel, Fred L., Jr., and Leon, in 

 Memory of Their Mother, Mrs. 

 Blanche R. Mandel, Chicago: 14 

 Lamaist paintings, 18th-19th century 

 (framed)— Tibet and China (gift). 



Martin, Mrs. George H., Chicago: 

 2 carved horn spoons — Sitka Indians, 

 Sitka, Alaska (gift). 



National Museum, Copenhagen, 

 Denmark: 16 pieces of fur garments; 

 57 wood, 29 bone, 49 stone, and 17 

 leather objects; 2 glass beads — Green- 

 land (exchange). 



National Museum of Mexico, 

 Mexico City, Mexico: 76 pottery ob- 

 jects — Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Campeche, 

 Mexico (exchange). 



Rathbun, Rowland, Chicago: 23 

 drawings of Sasanian stucco (gift). 



Reeves, Captain Dache M., Day- 

 ton, Ohio: 2 large aerial photographs of 

 Hopewell Mounds, Ohio (gift). 



Sargent, Homer E., Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia: 1 blanket — Kabyle, Algeria, 

 northwest Africa (gift). 



Seton-Karr, H. W., London, Eng- 

 land: 10 paleolithic stone implements — - 

 Somaliland, east Africa (gift). 



Taylor, Zachary, Bangkok, Siam: 

 2 leather shadow-play figures — Bang- 

 kok, Siam (gift). 



Toler, G. E., Chicago: 1 stone eflSgy 

 pipe, 1 pottery vessel — Bluff City, 

 Fulton County, Illinois (gift). 



Warren, Allyn D., Chicago: 1 large 

 carved figure of Vishnu riding on Garuda 

 — Bali, Dutch East Indies (gift). 



Wilson, Samuel, Chicago: 1 official 

 document on yellow paper bound in 

 yellow silk — China (gift). 



DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY — ACCESSIONS 



Alfaro, Professor Anastasio, San 

 Jose, Costa Rica: 46 specimens of 

 mosses (gift). 



Andrews, A. H., Estero, Florida: 2 

 chayote fruits (gift). 



Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 

 Massachusetts: 650 specimens of plants 

 (exchange). 



Arsenb, Rev. Brother G., Santa Fe, 

 New Mexico: 2,702 specimens of plants 

 — New Mexico (gift). 



Atlas Brewing Company, Chicago: 

 11 samples of beverages (gift). 



Bailey, Dr. L. H., Ithaca, New 

 York: 100 photographs of palms (ex- 

 change). 



