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clothing, and textiles, gourd-work, headdresses, basketry, pottery, 

 stone carvings from ancient graves, weapons, musical instruments, 

 and articles of household and domestic use. 



Collections of A. Bienkoiosky and Mrs. William H. Bell. — "West- 

 ern Panama, including the provinces of Bocas del Toro, Veraguas, 

 and Chiriqui, is represented by a series of ethnological collections 

 from the Guaymie, Talamanca, and other aborigines, dating back to 

 a collection by John S. Lamson in 1883, including textiles, pottery, 

 bows and arrows from the province of Chiriqui. A number of woven 

 bags from Los Remedios, Chiriqui, was presented by Col. D. D. Gail- 

 lard, U. S. A., in 1907, also by Mrs. D. E. Wright of Winchester, Va., 

 in 1925. The Guaymie Indians of Bocas del Toro are represented by 

 a collection of musical instruments, basketry, and gourdwork se- 

 cured by Frank E. Read in 1909, while specimens of bark clothing, 

 dance masks, and other objects, collected by A. Bienkowsky in 1907, 

 represent Veraguas. M rs. William H. Bell presented to the Museum 

 in 1909 a collection of native weapons and textiles from the Guaymie 

 of Bocas del Toro. 



Collections of H. Pittier, William Markham, and other minor 

 collections. — Southeastern Panama, interchangeably referred to as 

 Darien in this handbook, is separated from the tribal groups of 

 western Panama by the beaten path of the Canal Zone. Several 

 smaller ethnological collections from the Darien, or southeastern 

 Panamanian, tribes were contributed by Charles L. Bullman in 1890, 

 by Mrs. Caroline E. Bates in 191G, by Mrs. O. W. Barrett in 1918, 

 and by others. Mrs. H. C. Curl, of Washington, D. C, collected 

 a number of baskets in 1909 ; textiles consisting of woven bags from 

 the Chucunaque River valley were collected by Col. David D. Gail- 

 lard in 1911; a large number of objects representative of the culture 

 of the Choco Indians of the Sambu River valley, South Darien, 

 collected by H. Pittier for the Department of Agriculture and trans- 

 ferred to the United States National Museum in 1912, consist of 

 basketry, gourds, musical instruments, children's toys, bark cloth- 

 ing, and weapons. 



It was not until 1924 that the ethnological material from Darien 

 became at all adequately representative of the various native tribes 

 living there. The year was remarkable in that three collections were 

 presented to the museum ; the first one, by the Hon. Hoffman Philip, 

 consisted of a small collection of ear ornaments worn by the Choco 

 of the Cauca River valley, Colombia, William Markham, a resident 

 of Cristobal, Canal Zone, for 15 years, presented a large number of 

 articles from the Tule Indians of the San Bias section of the Carib- 

 bean coast; included are earrings, nose rings, necklaces, bark cloth 

 mats, textiles, gourd work, musical instruments, and bows and ar- 



