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foncave surfaces; they were found together about a foot below the 

 surface, in the hills along the Freiuli Broad lvi\ri-. ncur .\.>heville, 

 North Carolina, on the site of an ohl Indian <:ini|)inii' phice. Prof. 

 E. II. Kandle. of Hernando, ^lississippi, sent as an exchange a collec- 

 tion of stone implements and other objects, including large chii)ped 

 lihides ( digging tools) , sliowing high polish at the bi'oad cutting end; 

 leaf-shapeil blades, worked Hakes, spearheads and arrow j)oints of 

 flint; polished stone hatchets, one of unusual form; hammer stones, 

 mortar and jjestles, stone ball-, nndlers of -tone anil luniatite; dis- 

 coiilal stones, and an i'Xce])tionally fine hematite pluinmct or sinker. 

 The collection is mainly from western Tennessee and contains many 

 good pieces. The Bureau of American Ethnology transferred to the 

 Museum a number of leaf-sliai)e(l blades of rhyolite, from caches 

 recently discovered near Tennallj^toAvn, District of Columbia. Dr. 

 Henri Martin, of Paris, France, transmitted in exchange many flint 

 imi)lements, scrapers, knives, points, etc., from a deposit at La Quina, 

 Charente, France. The President of the United States donated a 

 collection of small earthenware figurines, vessels, and wdiistles from 

 ancient graves in Panama, presented to him on the occasion of his 

 visit to the Canal Zone in 190(). A small unique ornament of pa- 

 godite. found near a large Indian mound 5 miles south of Washing- 

 ton, AVilkes County, Georgia, was contributed by Mr. I^arry Benson. 

 Casts of several interesting stone objects, borrowed for the purpose, 

 Avere made in the laboratory of the dei)artment. 



During the excavations made to uncover the ancient ruins of Casa 

 Grande, Arizona, under a special act of Congress, Dr. J. W. Fewkes, 

 in charge of the work, discovered several hundred small objects which 

 could not be safely left at the spot, and they were accordingly brought 

 to the Museum. They consisted of stone implements, pottery vessels, 

 articles of shell and bone, wooden implements and beams, textile 

 fabrics and basket work, and a number of human skulls and skeletons. 



The princi})al accession to the division of historic archeology com- 

 prised specimens of Greco-Egyptian ])a)\vri. a gift from the Egypt 

 Exploration Fund. 



The division of techtiology received a numl)er of very valuable ad- 

 ditions, the most imi^ortant of which was the transfer from the War 

 Dejiartment of a collection of 115 rifles, muskets, carbines, and pistols, 

 principally obsolete weapons used by the United States Army bi'tween 

 1800 and 1 s(>0. It includes a variety of pieces made at the Govt'rn- 

 ment armories at Springlicld. Massachusetts, and IIari)ers Ferry, 

 West Virginia, and exam|)les of the work of several ^jrivate con- 

 tractoi's who maTiufactui-ed guns of the Springfield pattern foi- tlie 

 GoNcrnincni. .Vniong the latter are nniskets made 1)V Asa Waters, 

 MHlbury, Massachusetts, in 18-iO, 1821, 1822, 1825, 1820, and 1827; 



