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National Museum has the largest in existence, and the manuscript is 

 expected to be ready for the press within a .year. His bulletin on the 

 " Culture of the Ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila Kiver Region, 

 New Mexico and Arizona," was completed and published. 



American archeology. — Among the more important of the 49 ac- 

 cessions received by this division were the following : Mr. Chester W. 

 Washburne, collecting for the Smithsonian Institution, mainly in 

 old Indian camp sites and caves in the valleys of the liio Negro and 

 Santa Cruz in Patagonia, South America, transmitted several hun- 

 dred specimens, including a roughly shaped mortar and pestle, a 

 disk-shaped rubbing stone, leaf-shaped blades, various chipped im- 

 plements of usual types and fragments of pottery vessels. An inter- 

 esting collection of flint implements, grooved axes, celts, leaf-shaped 

 blades, projectile points, and other stone objects from Jackson 

 County, Mo., was received as a gift from Mr, J. G. Braecklein, of 

 Kansas City; and a series of antiquities from Porto Rico, both 

 originals and casts, was obtained in exchange from Mr. George G, 

 Ileye, of New York. Mr. Neil M. Judd, of the Museum staff, during 

 an investigation in Guatemala, secured a number of interesting 

 objects, including ancient pottery vessels, examples of earthenware 

 made in modern Guatemalan potteries and sold as antiquities, stone 

 implements, a modern ceremonial mask attributed to the Maya 

 Indians of Chiapas, a large woolen blanket woven by Quiche In- 

 dians, and two small wooden carvings, one of a friar, the other of 

 a cavalier, and both doubtless pertaining to the early Spanish occu- 

 pation of the country. A choice collection purchased of Mr. D. I. 

 Bushnell, jr., of Charlottesville, Va., comprises large chipped flint 

 blades from Missouri and Illinois, showing the polish of long-con- 

 tinued use in cultivating the soil; chipped celts and chisels with 

 ground cutting edges, from the same States and Tennessee ; hematite 

 implements from Missouri, and other exceptionally fine specimens. 

 From Mrs. William Elroy Curtis, of Washington, a large series of 

 archeological objects was received as a loan. It includes clay spindle 

 whorls from the Valley of Mexico, a carved stone metate and muller 

 from Costa Rica, a string of beads made of rock crystal from Colom- 

 bia, and eartheuAvare bottles, jars, cooking pots, bowls, figurines and 

 prayer sticks, wooden spindle whorls, a carved stone llama, hairpins 

 of copper and silver, and other objects from Peru. 



With the receipt of the additional cases required it was possible 

 to carry well toward completion the further work of selecting, ar- 

 ranging, and labeling the exhibition collections of the division, 

 which, as a presentation of the archeology of northern America, 

 stands unquestionably first in the world. Much attention was given to 

 the reserve collections, and for the first time the large accumulation 



