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terial from the Flathead Indians of British Columbia, consisting of 

 carved horn bowls, spoons, fishhooks, etc., was presented by Dr. 

 E. A. Spitzka, Washington, D. C. Twenty-four ancient ivory carv- 

 ings designed as fetishes, mostly from the Walaka and Baluba Ne- 

 groes, Lower Congo, Africa, were purchased. 



The following accessions to American archeology are deserving 

 of special notice: A collection of 128 archeological specimens, many 

 of which appear to exhibit contact with non-Pueblo peoples, gath- 

 ered b}^ Mr. J. A. Jeancon for the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 from an ancient ruin near Taos, N. Mex., and transferred by the 

 bureau ; a collection of 114 antiquities from cliff dwellings and other 

 prehistoric ruins northwest of the Rio Colorado, made for the Bureau 

 of American Ethnolog}'^ by Mr. Neil M. Judd and subsequently 

 transferred b}'^ the bureau; a bronze ax blade and a highly embel- 

 lished, cylindrical earthenware vase from Salvador, presented by 

 Sr. Emilio Mosonyi ; a series of 183 specimens from prehistoric ruins 

 in the Chaco Canyon National Monument, N. Mex., collected by Neil 

 M. Judd under the auspices of the National Geographic Society, 

 which later presented the material to the national collections; a 

 carved jade tiki or fetish from New Zealand, secured through ex- 

 change with Mr. Louis C. G. Clarke ; and two collections of Mexican 

 antiquities obtained by Maj. Harry S. Bryan. The first of these 

 is a gift of 12 specimens ; the second, a loan, includes 64 specimens. 

 Dr. Walter Hough presented an interesting series of shell beads and 

 pendants and stone fetishes from Keetseel Ruin, Arizona, and the 

 Zuni region, New Mexico. A carved wooden Floridian image, found 

 in reclaimed soil which Lake Okeechobee formerly covered to a depth 

 of 6 feet, was given to the Museum b}^ Mr. M. A. Millar, Venus, Fla. 



A most noteworthy accession to the division of Old World arche- 

 ology is a valuable collection of Buddhist religious art, consisting 

 of old bronze statues and figures, lacquered shrines, and exquisitely 

 painted kakemonos from China and Japan, gift of Mrs. Murray 

 Warner; another small collection of Buddhist bronze figures de- 

 serves notice, inasmuch as, besides its intrinsic artistic value, it 

 filled some gaps in the Museum collection of tlie Buddhist pantheon, 

 gift of Mrs. John Van Rensselaer Hoff. Mention is also made of a 

 small collection of finely worked embroideries with Christian themes, 

 gift from the estate of Mrs. Mary E. Pinchot ; and the collection of 

 Jewish ceremonial, which includes a considerable number of artis- 

 ticall}^ worked silver vessels from Palestine, lent by Mr. Ephraim 

 Deinard, 



Of the accessions in physical anthropology which deserve special 

 notice, the foremost place belongs to the " Huntington collection " of 

 skeletal material. This collection is received formally as an " ex- 

 change," but is really in the main a gift from the College of Physicians 



