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Indian baskets, bequeathed by Mrs. Mary Manning Fletcher; 19 

 Navaho blankets and 3 models of blanket frames assembled by the 

 late Dr. Washington Matthews, United States Army, and used by 

 him in the preparation of his work on Navaho weavers, published in 

 the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 besides a number of miscellaneous objects, received as a loan from 

 Mrs. Matthews; manj^ Mexican relics, consisting of ivory carvings, 

 crucifixes of wood, ivory and metal, and photographs of historical 

 subjects, lent by Maj. Harry S. Bryan, of Mexico Cit}^; and a col- 

 lection of various kinds of objects pertaining to the Spokane, Col- 

 ville, Okinagan, and Columbia Indians, lent by Mr. Clair Hunt, of 

 Colville, Wash. The division is indebted to Capt. J. R. Harris, 

 United States Army, for a gift of bows, arrows, SAvords, an alphabet 

 tablet, snares, boxes, etc., from the Moros of Mindanao; and to the 

 Museum fiir Volkerkunde, Leipzig, Germany, for a collection of 

 material from southeastern Africa, analogous to articles illustrated 

 in the important works of Prof. L. Frobenius, obtained in exchange. 



The exhibition series received many additions and improvements. 

 The Hopi family group was completed and installed. The 

 Tehuelche family group, the Zuiii potter, the Navaho silversmith, the 

 Navaho weaver, the Maya-Quiche and Apache subfamily groups, 

 and several single figures were transferred to the new cases specially 

 built for them, this work involving a considerable amount of repaint- 

 ing of figures and readjustment of groundwork. The Igorot group 

 and Kiowa children group were taken down preparatory to extensive 

 changes necessary to place them in a more satisfactory condition. 

 The synoptic series, illustrating the development of the several types 

 of artifacts, which had been in storage for a number of years, was 

 installed in 13 cases, interspersed among the lay-figure group cases in 

 the east and west halls. Progress was also made in other directions, 

 improvements being carried out in installation, exhibits reassembled 

 more effectively and in more accurate geographical relations, and 

 many specimens repaired. Much time was also given to the prepa- 

 ration of case and individual labels, manj^ hand-written ones being 

 used pending their printing. 



Plans were made for and w^ork actively begim on an ethnological 

 exhibition for the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, 

 figures for two large family groups having been completed, and ma- 

 terials for four floor cases selected. The exhibit will cover a space 

 of approximately 6,000 square feet. The curator also undertook for 

 the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego the supervision of 

 the preparation of models of 10 village groups, illustrating the abo- 

 riginal architecture of North and South America. Five of these 

 groups were finished. 



The curator. Dr. Walter Hough, continued the preparation of a 

 catalogue of the Hopi-Pueblo Indian collection, of which the 

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