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negatives illustrating the life of the people and the country they in- 

 habit and two dozen phonograph records. The work of securing 

 additional Hopi ethnological inaterial, under the recent Stanlej^ Mc- 

 Cormick grant, was entrusted to Assistant Curator Owen. As the 

 previous Hopi collection had been made chiefly at the third mesa, 

 a house to house search of the first and second mesas was made and 

 yielded i,6oo specimens. Prominent among these are masks, head- 

 dresses, tihus, an old Oaqol altar (fragmentary) of 45 pieces, an original 

 Balolokon screen, fetishes, charms, bahos, varieties of the throwing 

 stick; food stuffs, medicines, basket materials, textiles, games, stone 

 implements, necklaces, jewelry of silver, moccasins, floor smoothing 

 stones, mortars for foods and paints, cotton seed, also a comprehensive 

 collection of ceremonial paraphernalia. More than 200 photographs 

 were made of scenes of Hopi life and surroundings. A most gratify- 

 ing report from Dr. Lewis, who has been for some time past and is 

 now conducting the Joseph N. Field, South Pacific Islands expedition, 

 has been recently received. Dr. Lewis reports that since making his 

 last formal report he spent six weeks in the British Solomon Islands, 

 during which time he visited several of the different islands and obtained 

 quite a number of specimens, though from the museum standpoint there 

 is not very much left in most of these islands, except in the most in- 

 accessible parts, and that, as it would take a year or so to visit the 

 different islands and make a representative collection, he deemed it 

 inadvisable to stay longer, so he secured the services of a resident who 

 has occasion to visit most of the islands on business, to make a col- 

 lection for him. In the early part of January Dr. Lewis returned to 

 Sydney, intending to visit the New Hebrides and New Caledonia next, as 

 it is impossible to get directly from the Solomon Islands to these other 

 groups. On account of the season and the condition of his health 

 Dr. Lewis thought it wisest to postpone his visit to these islands until 

 April, and in the meantime took a trip to New Zealand by the way of 

 Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. In Fiji he procured a few specimens and 

 arranged to get additional ones. At Auckland Dr. Lewis procured a 

 few very rare and valuable specimens, chiefly from the Solomon Islands. 

 After spending a week or more in the geyser district he proceeded to 

 Wellington and spent a week there, studying the collections in the 

 Dominion Museum, where he arranged with the Director of that 

 Museum to exchange material collected in the field for a collection of 

 photographs, etc. From Wellington he returned to Sydney by way 

 of the South Island and Melbourne, as he wished to visit the Museums 

 at Dunedin, Christ Church and Melbourne, and obtain letters from the 

 commonwealth officials at Melbourne to the officials in British New 



