46 REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1^21. 



DISTKIBCTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS. 



The department began in a systematic way the distribution of 

 duplicate material to educational institutions. Despite the limited 

 variety of duplicates available, series of ethnology were selected 

 with the view of conveying concrete facts of value in culture studies, 

 and sent out to deserving schools. An intelligent distribution of 

 the duplicate materials in anthropology is prospectively of great 

 educational benefit to many institutions in the United States, espe- 

 cially to smaller schools with limited facilities. An increasing 

 number of schools teach art, and such collections as are sent out 

 are adapted for instruction in designing, using Indian art as a basis 

 for the coming American school. 



Besides the gifts noted above, several exchanges were made in 

 the division of ethnology which added valuable specimens to the 

 collection. The division supplied Rev. Dr. James M. Magruder, 

 Annapolis, Md., with two model arrows of the southern Maryland 

 Indians of 1750, to be sent by the Patriotic Society of the Ark and 

 Dove of Baltimore to the King of England as a reminder of the 

 tribute of arrows sent by the colony of Maryland during the colonial 

 period. 



From the division of physical anthropology a quantity of un- 

 identified skeletal material was prepared for the George Washington 

 University, at their request, as a gift. 



The department of anthropolog}'^ sent out 7 gifts, comprising 151 

 specimens, and 10 exchanges, comprising 237 specimens. There 

 were received in the department, for examination and report, 36 

 lots of specimens, diversified in character. 



NUMBEE OF .SPECIMENS ADDED TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



During the year there were received 149 accessions comprising 

 2,324 specimens, in addition to the major portion of the Hunting- 

 ton collection of skeletal material, which has not yet been completely 

 catalogued. Of these, 24 accessions, containing 691 specimens, were 

 loans and deposits. The total number of specimens were assigned 

 as follows: Ethnology, 586 specimens; American archeology. 861 

 specimens; Old World archeology, 414 specimens; physical anthro- 

 pology, 115 specimens besides the skeletal material mentioned above ; 

 art textiles, 133 specimens; musical instruments, 16 specimens; and 

 ceramics, 199 specimens. In addition, 6 accessions, comprising 84 

 specimens, were entered in the department before the transfer of 

 the recording for the section of period costumes to the division of 

 history and are not included in the figures given. 



