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The Peabody Mnseom of Archaeology.— 



The Peabody Museum of American ArchaB- 

 ology has received for current expenses 

 since 1881, when the first gift was made to 

 it, $27,801. The gifts amounted to an av- 

 erage of $3,089 a year. The permanent 

 fund for the support of the museum gives 

 an income of $2,376 a year. At no time 

 has so much interest been talcen in the 

 work of the museum or in aid of its explo- 

 rations as during the past two years. Im- 

 portant additions have been made to the 

 building, and improvements in the arrange- 



ment of the collections. Among the results 

 of the various works arc additional discov- 

 eries of p alaeolithic implements in the Tren- 

 ton gravel by Dr. Abbott, and of others 

 from the older or Columbian gravel by Dr. 

 Cresson ; discoveries by Mr. Ernest Volk in 

 relation to the early people of the Delaware 

 Valley ; explorations by the curator of burial- 

 places of Massachusetts Indians at Win- 

 throp; of Seneca Indians in the Genesee 

 Valley ; and of village sites of Indians in 

 the Potomac Valley, with recovery of chipped 

 stones and implements in various stages of 

 manufacture from an ancient workshop. The 

 Serpent Mound Park has been completed, 

 and the hay crop and the discriminate cut- 

 ting of timber from parts of the land will 

 help bear the expense of maintaining it. A 

 collection and several important objects 

 have been received from Mexico, Yucatan, 

 and Santo Domingo ; crania of Zufii and of a 

 Tierra del Fuegian ; the sacred pole of the 

 Omaha Indians, with the scalps of noted ene- 

 mies of the tribe, the sacred pipe, arrows, etc.; 

 Peruvian pottery and pottery vessels, stone 

 implements, and carved stones from Chiriqui ; 

 implements, weapons, masks, etc., from New 

 Guinea and several islands of the Pacific; 

 casts of M. Desire Charnay's collections of 

 the Lorillard Expedition to Yucatan and 

 Mexico ; and copper implements from the 

 province of Tobasco, Mexico, which will 

 form an important link in the chain of evi- 

 dence upon the working of stone in Mexico 

 and Central America. Continued explora- 

 tions in the Little Miami Valley have re- 

 sulted in the discovery of some ancient 

 hearths half a mile below the Turner earth- 

 works, which furnish evidence of the occu- 

 pation of the bottom lands at different in- 

 tervals during the formation of the deposit 

 that fills the valley. The Turner earthwork 

 has now been thoroughly explored ; more 

 so, perhaps, than any earthwork in the 

 country. In the last mound examined, large 

 flint points of peculiar shape, handles made 

 of antlers, and specimens of the objects 

 called gorgets made from a stalagmitic or 

 fibrous gypsum, were found — all unique. 

 Another curious work has been examined 

 at Foster's, about twenty miles above the 

 Turner group. It is a circumvallntion more 

 than half a mile in extent, made up of 

 a carefully laid wall of flat stones, loose 



