20 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 



McGuire's researches in the vicinity of Mount Kineo, Maine, resulted 

 in a valuable collection of stone implements and rejectage of imple- 

 ment-making, which Mr. McGuire presented to the Museum through 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Historic archeology. — Among the collections received and assigned 

 to this division were the following: Egyptian bronze figurines of 

 Osiris, Isis, and Horus, usJiahti figurines of faience, pottery vases, 

 pieces of mummy cartonage and a box of wheat grains, lent by Mr. 

 A. PI. Blackiston, of Cumberland, Maryland; and 30 specimens of 

 Turkestan pottery of the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, obtained 

 by exchange from the Musee d'Anthropologie et d'Ethnographie de 

 Pierre le Grand, St. Petersburg, Russia. Of objects of religious art 

 and ceremonial were models of the Salt Lake Mormon Temple and 

 Tabernacle, presented to the Museum by the Church of Latter Day 

 Saints of Jesus Christ, through its treasurer and commissioner at the 

 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Mr. George D. Pyper; a model in 

 wood of the Russian Church at Sitka, made under the supervision of 

 the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, and a model of the Santa Barbara Mis- 

 sion, California, constructed under the supervision of the head curator, 

 both for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition and transferred to the 

 Museum by the United States Government Board of Managers; a 

 model of a Hindu temple, made from the pith of the cork tree, from 

 the Rev. William E. DeRiemer; 19 liturgical books used in the 

 Russian Church in Alaska, the gift of the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff; 

 and a Catholic reliquary and six religious medals, lent by Mrs. G. 

 Brown Goode. 



Pending the removal of the collections to the new building, little 

 work was done on the exhibition series. A small number of objects, 

 not heretofore shown, was installed in the Egyptian section, and some 

 labels were prepared and printed. At the close of the year, the 

 Egyptian and a large part of the Assyro-Babylonian and Hittite col- 

 lections had been transferred, but there still remained in the old 

 building the entire series of objects of recent religious art. Studies 

 were made of the ancient potteries, with a view to their arrangement 

 under the new conditions. 



Physical anthroj^ology . — Of the accessions received by this division, 

 which were numerous and of exceptional value, the most important 

 was that of the Egyptian remains, which, through the courtesy and 

 generosity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Dr. Ales 

 Hrdlicka, curator of the division, was enabled to make in connection 

 with the extensive excavations that are being conducted by that 

 Museum. The value of this collection is greatly enhanced by the fact 

 that every specimen is well identified chronologically. Other note- 

 worthy accessions were about 100 Indian skulls, with other bones, 

 from Newport, Madison, and Marked Tree, Arkansas, obtained and 



