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and although many of them were broken, enough pieces were secured 

 to restore about twenty vessels. Mr. W. L. Shear, of Clarendon, 

 Virginia, also contributed a number of objects from the Spruce Tree 

 House, obtained during explorations for the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Mr. Herbert E. Clark, United States vice-consul at Jerusalem, 

 contributed 37 remarkable flint implements of paleolithic types found 

 near Jerusalem on the Plain of Bethlehem and 46 photographs from 

 his large and varied Palestine collection. From the Natural History 

 Museum of P^lbeuf, France, there were received in exchange 273 

 prehistoric flint and quartzite implements. The Bureau of American 

 Ethnology transferred a collection of stone implements, including 

 hammer stones, roughly shaped pieces (turtle backs), leaf-shaped 

 blades, scrapers, knives, arrow points, etc., obtained during the sum- 

 mer of 1908 at an aboriginal workshop site at the headwaters of the 

 East Branch of the Kennebec River where it leaves Moosehead Lake, 

 by Mr. J. D. McGuire, who presented them to the bureau. The 

 material of the flaked objects is mainly felsitic rhyolite, sometimes 

 called Mount Kineo flint. Another transfer from the bureau con- 

 sisted of 88 aboriginal Carib implements from various sites in the 

 British and Danish West Indies, collected by Mr. C. W. Branch, 

 of St. Vincent. The Carnegie Institution of Washington, District 

 of Columbia, presented 23 examples of pottery, basketry, gourd ves- 

 sels, textiles, etc., secured by Mr. W. J. Peters on the sterile, mortuary 

 island of San Lorenzo, near Callao, Peru. 



The Mexican Government presented a complete reproduction in 

 plaster of the Tablet of the Cross of Palenque, in consideration of 

 the return to that Government of the original of one section of the 

 tablet brought from Yucatan in 1842 and for many years preserved 

 in the National Museum. A collection of hammer stones and plum- 

 met stones, a small stone mortar, and an engraved stone mace head, 

 from Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, and an earthenware vessel from Nazca, 

 Peru, procured by Mr. William H. Holmes during his trip to South 

 America, was received from the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 The Department of State transferred an ancient copper bell, found 

 in a cave in the valley of Naco near Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Honduras, 

 by William E. Alger, American consul at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 

 It is a very interesting piece of aboriginal metal-work, globular in 

 shape, and resembling the modern sleigh bell, but about 2 inches 

 in diameter. The upjDer portion has a wire loop for suspension and, 

 with other pieces of metal attached, takes the form of a grotesque 

 face, more animal than human in conception. Among other things 

 found in the same cave were wooden idols, stone lances, etc. A 

 remarkable carved stone pestle, the5 upper portion representing a 

 human head, was presented by Sehor D. Juan Cabezas, of Carolina, 



