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many years has been held in storage in rented quarters was carried 

 over in bulk, unpacked and cleaned, sorted and placed in trays or 

 otherwise cared for. The exhibition series was in large measure 

 removed in trays and boxes, and such cases as were portable were re- 

 paired and renovated to again receive the collections in the new halls. 

 Satisfactory progress was made in the revising of the card catalogue. 



In the latter part of the winter a portion of the exhibition collec- 

 tion was temporarily installed, in connection mth the paintings of 

 the National Gallery of Ai't, in the middle hall of the new building, 

 for the opening which occurred on March 17. Several exhibits 

 recently received from the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition were 

 also utilized for that occasion. At the close of the year there remained 

 in the old Museum building the contents of certain wall cases in the 

 west hall, and of a large number of the floor and wall cases in the 

 north-west and west-north ranges, and in the northwest court and 

 gallery. 



The curator, Dr. Walter Hough, continued his investigations on 

 the use of incense by the Indian tribes of the Western Hemisphere; 

 on the basketry and textile art of the Pueblo tribes; on the distribu- 

 tion of gray ware in the Pueblo region; on the relation between the 

 Mexican and Pueblo cultures, and on the Museum-Gates collection of 

 1905. In response to a suggestion made to the Consular Bureau of 

 the Deprrtment of State that the Smithsonian Institution and 

 National Museum be included in the curriculum of consular educa- 

 tion, a class of 25 recently appointed consuls was instructed by 

 Dr. Hough in the subject of anthropology on July 29, 1909. 



Prehistoric archeology. — The accessions in this division exceeded in 

 number those of the previous year and furnished material of excep- 

 tional scientific value. Of particular importance was a collection 

 from Argentina, forwarded by Dr. Juan B. Ambrosetti on behalf of 

 the Museu Ethnografico, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, in 

 exchange for North American material. It includes stone mortars 

 and pestles, metates and mullers, hammer stones, grooved stone axes, 

 hatchets, stone disks, stone beads, flakes of flint and obsidian, bone 

 implements and ornaments, shell objects, implements and objects 

 of wood, bronze implements and ornaments, and a representative 

 series of earthenware vessels including large burial urns, bowls, 

 pitchers, jars, dishes, etc., many with painted decorations. The 

 collection is especially valuable for purposes of comparison with 

 analogous relics of antiquity in North America. 



A noteworthy collection obtained by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, under the auspices of the Department 

 of the Interior, from the "Cliff Palace," Mesa Verde National Park, 

 Colorado, consists of grooved stone axes (one with the original 

 handle), notched axes, hammer and polishing stones, paint stones, 



