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blowgiin, and the textures made from the bark of trees have received 

 special attention. 



A number of jDersons visited the division of ethnolog}' for the pur- 

 pose of studying its collections or its methods of work and installa- 

 tion, and many were furnished information by correspondence. 

 Among artists who were supplied with data regarding Indian cos- 

 tumes and decorative designs were Mr. William Ordway Partridge 

 and Mr. H. K. Bush-Brown. Others who made use of the collections 

 or secured information in various lines were Mr. Stewart Culin, of the 

 Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. Samuel 

 A. Barrett, of the University of California ; Mr. E. de K. Leffing- 

 w^ell, who is conducting investigations on the northern coast of 

 Alaska ; Mr. Arthur C. Parker, of the New York State Museum ; Mr. 

 William B. Douglass, of the General Land Office; Mr. Frederick O. 

 Grover, curator of the new museum at Oberlin College, Ohio ; Judge 

 James Wickersham, Delegate for Alaska; Mr. Herman Bucher, in- 

 structor in the department of manual arts, New York City public 

 schools ; and Mrs. John Wilkes, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Influ- 

 enced by a pamphlet on Anthropology in Education for the consular 

 service, by the assistant curator, the Department of State has included 

 this topic in its curriculum of consular instruction, and on July 8, 

 1908, a number of newly appointed consuls were addressed and 

 shown the collections in the Museum by Professor Mason. 



Prelustoric archeology. — Of greatest importance among the acces- 

 sions to this division were two collections as follows: The first re- 

 sulted from the excavations and repair of the Casa Grande ruins, 

 Arizona, conducted b}^ Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, under act of Congress 

 approved March 4, 1907. Numbering 662 objects, it comprised stone 

 axes and hammers, rubbing and grinding stones, mortars, paint 

 stones, digging implements, stone balls and spindle-whorls; earthen- 

 ware bowls, pots, ladles, effigy vases, etc.; pieces of basketry and 

 textile fabrics, shell ornaments, bone awls, and wooden implements. 

 These form a valuable addition to the material obtained at the same 

 locality by Doctor Fewkes in 1906-7. The second collection, consist- 

 ing of about 500 objects, was made during similar excavations at the 

 ruins of the Spruce Tree House, in the Mesa Verde National Park, 

 Colorado, in 1908, for the Department of the Interior, by the same ex- 

 plorer. These objects included stone axes and hammers, paint stones 

 and mullers, bone adz, scrapers, awls and needles, wooden planting 

 sticks, awls, arrow-shafts, fire sticks, spindle-whorls, latticework, 

 loops of agave fiber (primitive fastenings for doorways), fragments 

 of blankets or mats (cord and feather work), basket-work sandals, 

 woven head bands, head rings or cushions, buckskin medicine bags, 

 bundles of fiber used in basketry, gaming sticks and hoops. There 

 was also a valuable series of earthenware bowls, mugs, pitchers, etc., 



