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the Vai-speaking peoples of western Africa (Soudan), gathered by 
Mr. Ellis while at his post as secretary of the American legation in 
Liberia. It is rich in specimens of the fine leather work manufactured 
by these natives and also contains examples of their costumes, pottery, 
models of canoes, household belongings, and samples of the mineral, 
animal, and vegetable products of the country. 
The Philippine Insular Commission at the Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition presented 458 specimens, a selection from the immense 
exhibits of the Commission, consisting of pottery, musical instruments, 
basketry, agricultural tools, models of houses, transportation devices, 
costumes, textile fabrics, ete., illustrating the culture of the islands. 
This gift was in addition to the large collection received from the 
same source the year before. 
Mrs. Jane Friedenwald, of Baltimore, donated to the Museum a 
collection of ethnologica, numbering 46 objects from the Egyptian 
Soudan, comprising musical instruments, spears, swords, ironwork, 
and leather work, of superior interest and yalue. The geographical 
cabinet of the Benedictine School, Seitenstetten, Lower Austria, sent 
in exchange, through Prof. P. Josef Schock, an excellent series of 19 
ethnological and industrial objects from southeastern Europe. Dr. H. 
Pittier, of the U. 5. Department of Agriculture, contributed a collec- 
tion of 18 ethnological specimens from the Popayan Indians of Cauca, 
Colombia, consisting of baskets, dishes, personal ornaments, and figu- 
rines carved from seeds and painted in colors. 
The more noteworthy additions to the division of prehistoric arche- 
ology have been as follows: Through Mr. Jean Miguel, of Herault, 
France, there were obtained in exchange 106 objects, including flint 
hatchets, knives and scrapers, bone awls, fragments of animal and 
human bones, etc., mainly from caverns in France and Algeria, besides 
a number of polished stone implements, fragments of pottery, bronze 
pins, and a bronze hatchet, from various localities in France and from 
a pile dwelling at Lake Morat, Switzerland. Mr. Miguel also donated 
a small collection of the same character. Dr. H. Pittier presented 3 
especially fine specimens of earthenware spindle whorls, with incised 
and inlaid decorations, taken from graves in the Cauca Valley, Colom- 
bia, and also a gold spider and fishhook from southern Cauca. A 
small collection from Bogota, Colombia, consisting mainly of stone 
spindle whorls, all more or less decorated with incised line patterns, and 
a number of stone implements from New Jersey, were received asa gift 
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Pope, of Valparaiso, Chile. Thirty-one 
sarthenware bowls, bottles, effigy vases, tripod vases and figurines, 
and two stone hatchets, from Ahoma, Sinaloa, Mexico, apparently 
washed out of an ancient burial ground, were contributed by Mr. E. 
W. Nelson, of the Biological Survey, who obtained them during: his 
summer field-work of 1905. 
