28 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1908. 



other art work, assembled by Gen, Oliver Ellsworth AVood, U. S. 

 Ami}', duriiifr a four years' official residence in Japan, includino- the 

 period of the Russo-Japanese war, as United States military attache. 

 It comprises superb brass vases, lanterns and candlesticks, lacquers, 

 bronzes, screens, and wood carvings, a pair of costumed dolls 300 years 

 old, and a fine series of over 50 teapots, oil and sake vessels. Special 

 mention should be made of a pair of handsome bronze flower vases, 

 a gift to the Smithsonian Institution by Mrs, Adeline Lanman. 

 These vases, which are of chaste form and inlaid with several differ- 

 ent metals, were presented by the Emperor of Japan in 1883 to 

 Mr. Charles Lanman, American secretary of the Japanese legation 

 at Washington, President Roosevelt added to his numerous contri- 

 butions a splendid embroidered Arabian saddle cloth, 



Africa was represented in three accessions, Mr, J, D, JNIcGuire, 

 collaborator in the Museum, presented an ancient Kongo war horn 

 made of the tusk of an elephant. The Leipzig Museum of Ethnology 

 sent in exchange 231 weapons, fetiches, implements, and costumes 

 from the German j^ossessions, and Miss Louisiana Durant donated 

 59 objects from the Kaffir tribes of South Africa, a people which has 

 been but poorly represented in the National Museum. 



From the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute about 350 objects 

 from cliff dwellings in the Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto, 

 nortliAvestern Arizona, were obtained in exchange. This collection, 

 consisting of sandals, cotton cloth, basketry, matting, and other tex- 

 tiles, wooden implements, stone axes, mauls, grinding stones, etc, 

 which had been preserved in the dust of the dwellings, is the largest 

 Avhich the Museum has received from the region of the northern cliff 

 dwellers, and will prove of great value for comparison with the 

 material secured by the Museum-Gates expeditions in the southern 

 cliff-dwelling district, Mrs, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, procured illustrations of the arts and in- 

 dustries of the Taos Indians of New Mexico, and interesting speci- 

 mens relating to the textile industry of the Zuni Indians of the same 

 territory, Mr, George G. Heye, of New York, transmitted, in ex- 

 change, 83 objects from the Iroquois tribes of New York and Canada, 

 comprising masks, rattles, and other ceremonial objects, leggings, 

 caps, brooches, mortars, pestles, bows and arrows, musical instru- 

 ments, coins, and a fine wampum belt. A collection of 13 silver 

 brooches, many of which were heirlooms, from the New York reser- 

 vations of the same tribe, was purchased. Mr. J. D. McGuire con- 

 tributed a sash of colored wool yarns interwoven with bead work, a 

 production of the Creek Indians, probably 100 years old, 



A series of 212 objects illustrating the industrial and social life of 

 the little-known Tahltan Indians, of the Stikine River, British Co- 

 lumbia, gathered b}^ Lieut, G. T. Emmons, U. S. Navy, was received 



