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been increased by two gifts of Mr. Edward E. Ayer — a large Etrus- 

 can bronze vessel with chain handle and a small variegated glass bottle 

 from Egypt. Two other Italian bronze cistas of the third cen- 

 tury B. C, acquired by Mr. Ayer in Rome, were purchased by the 

 Museum. These specimens belong to a type now very scarce, and 

 seldom, if ever, offered for sale on the market. A diorite statuette of a 

 woman from Egypt, of great artistic beauty, likewise obtained by Mr. 

 Ayer, was secured through exchange. The section of North American 

 archaeology received from Mr. F. Schrott a flaked knife-blade of chert, 

 and from Mr. Clarence B. Moore of Philadelphia an assortment of 

 archaeological material. Fifty arrowheads and two stone axes from 

 Rock Hall, Maryland, were secured through exchange with Mr. George 

 C. Roberts. To Mr. Homer E. Sargent the Department is indebted for 

 an ancient gold ring from Mexico which has been added to the exhibits 

 of American gold jewelry in Higinbotham Hall. Dr. W. S. Lowe, 

 Phoenix, Arizona, presented several sections of cane stem, some 

 wrapped up with a small cotton fabric, found under a ledge of rock 

 in the Camelback Mountains, fifteen miles northeast of Phoenix, 

 and to have served as an offering. American ethnology has been 

 enriched by a gift from Mr. Richard G. Ellis, consisting of a rawhide 

 lariat, wooden bow with skin case, a stone celt, and a stone disc; and by 

 a gift from Mrs. Frank A. Devlin of Chicago, comprising three finely 

 carved cups of pod from Costa Rica (modern) and two prehistoric pot- 

 tery vessels from the same locality. The following acquisitions from 

 Assistant Curator Owen's recent expedition to Arizona have been 

 added: three finished two-faced Navaho blankets, and one in 

 the loom during the process of working, two-thirds being finished; 

 specimens of yarn, and implements used in weaving. Mr. Cleaver 

 Warden, Carlton, Oklahoma, presented the Museum with a peyote out- 

 fit of the Arapaho. Mrs. Frank W. Barker of Chicago presented the 

 Museum with a miscellaneous lot of 1 7 objects from Italy, Egypt, India, 

 northwest coast of North America, Hawaii, and Micronesia. The fol- 

 lowing gifts were received by the section of Asiatic Ethnology: a 

 rhinoceros-horn presented by Mr. F. W. Kaldenberg of New York; a 

 Japanese gold piece (10 yen), and a Japanese rectangular silver coin 

 from Mrs. T. B. Blackstone; three printing-blocks from the Examination 

 Halls of Nanking from the Curator; an interesting mariner's compass, 

 enclosed in a copper case, from Mr. Thomas Mason. Three paintings 

 representing polo matches, one album with 25 flower-pieces painted on 

 silk, and another containing an Atlas of Hunan Province with sixteen 

 hand-painted colored maps, were presented by Dr. John R. Taylor, in 

 recognition of services rendered him in the identification of his collection 



