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beads, disks, drilled pendants, thin stone slabs for grinding paint, 

 grooved sharpening stones, flint blades and arrow points; bone 

 implements and ornaments including chisels, scrapers, punches, etc., 

 many awls made from bones of deer and wdld turkey, and a number 

 of cylindrical beads; wooden shafts and planting sticks, ceremonial 

 tablets, fli-e sticks, prayer sticks, and withe handles for stone axes; 

 earthenware bowls, ladles, jars, mugs, cups, dishes, etc. Another 

 collection of kindred material was secured by Dr. Fewkes for the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology from the ruins of the Marsh Pass 

 region, Arizona, in 1909. It comprises grooved stone hammers or 

 sledges, pitted stones, polisliing stones, stone mortar, knives of flint 

 and quartzite, and flint arrow points; an earthenware strainer, and 

 fragments of coiled ware vessels and of painted and gray ware with 

 designs in red and black. A third North American collection, con- 

 sisting of ancient Pueblo earthenware, was donated by ]Mr. Stephen 

 Janis, superintendent of the Navaho Indian Reservation, Tuba City, 

 Arizona. Noteworthy examples are ollas and bowls of gray ware 

 with geometric decorations in black and red; others are embellished 

 with volutes and other figures in relief, and one jar is of coiled ware. 

 Senator H. C. Lodge presented a Porto Rican stone collar of massive 

 type, oval in shape and embellished with sculptured figures. A 

 collection of much interest from Honduras and Guatemala, including 

 numerous articles of stone, copper, and clay, was lent by ^Ir. A. H. 

 Blackiston, of Cumberland, I\Iaryland. Of special note are copper 

 bells of varied pattern, vases elaborately decorated in glyphic designs 

 and symbolic devices, and figures of animals and men modeled in 

 clay. 



The members of the staff of the division were mainly occupied 

 during most of the year in preparations for and in the actual removal 

 of the collections from the Smithsonian building to the new building, 

 and considerable headway had been made in the work of installation 

 in the new quarters by the end of June. The cataloguing and mark- 

 ing of recent accessions was kept up in the usual manner. 



During the early part of the year the head curator of the depart- 

 ment, Mr. William H. Plolmes, was engaged in the study of the stone 

 implements of the collection, in continuation of his work on an ex- 

 haustive monograph intended for publication by the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, but later his time was entirely taken up with 

 matters connected with the removal of collections. Mr. A. V. Kidder, 

 of the Peabody Museum of Archeology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 examined the collection of pottery obtained by Dr. Fewkes at the 

 "Cliff Palace," Mesa Verde National Park. Although no field work 

 was undertaken by the division, the explorations and excavations 

 in the Pueblo region, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, were important for the Museum; and Mr. J. D. 



