REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. IG. 
An interesting collection of 58 polished stone hatchets, arrow points, 
perforators, rice spoons, roughly shaped points of flint, curved 
‘‘jewels” or amulets, and a bead of nephrite, from various localities 
in Japan, were received in exchange from Mr. Y. Hirase, of Kara- 
sumaru, Kyoto. Five sculptured stone heads, parts of small statues, 
from Nagasaki, Japan, said to have been placed over graves, and 
belonging to the collection of the late Pierre Louis Jouy, were pre- 
sented by Mrs. Jouy. 
The Bureau of American Ethnology transferred a quantity of shell 
implements and objects, fragments of pottery, many showing incised 
and stamped decorations, and fossil bones obtained by Dr. Ales 
Hrdlitka from a shell mound near Osprey, Florida; and the U. &. 
Geological Survey a large number of mollusks, representing 24 
species, illustrating a part of the food of the mound builders, collected 
at the same place by Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan. 
A loan collection belonging to Mr. A. H. Blackiston, of Cumber- 
land, Maryland, comprises earthenware ollas, bowls, efligy vases, etc., 
with painted and incised decorations, and a number of the highly pol- 
ished specimens of black ware, stone axes, mortars, pestles, rabbing 
and polishing stones, carved stone amulets, copper objects, shell beads 
and pendants, shell necklaces, sandals of yucca fiber, fragments of 
cane matting, and pieces of human and animal bones from the Casas 
Grandes Valley and from Cave Valley, Chihuahua, Mexico, many 
having been obtained from ancient cliff dwellings. The painted pot- 
tery is of special interest as representing some new forms and sym- 
bolisms. An ax of limonite, found by Mr. J. M. Wulfing while dig- 
ging a well in Gasconade County, Missouri, is especially noteworthy 
from the fact that the material is quite light, like chalk, and not of 
the usual firm, heavy material of which stone axes are made. 
The principal accessions in the division of physical anthropology 
were as follows: Over 100 specimens from Malay, including a num- 
ber of brains of the orang, gibbon, and monkeys, besides 4 complete 
bodies of gibbons, presented by Doctor Abbott; an important collec- 
tion of skeleton parts of white races, from Prof. George 5. Hunting- 
ton, of Columbia University, in exchange; many crania and other 
bones, through the Bureau of Ethnology, collected at the ancient Indian 
ruins in Pajarito Park, New Mexico, by Mr. E. L. Hewett, and in the 
vicinity of Osprey, Florida, by Doctor Hrdlitka; Indian bones and 
crania from mounds in North Dakota, donated by Prof. H. Montgom- 
ery, of the University of Toronto; many specimens of the same char- 
acter from the ancient sites of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico and 
Arizona, through the Museum-Gates expedition of 1905; the brains 
of a number of animals which had died at the National Zoological 
Park; nearly 1,000 photographs of Indians belonging to over 30 tribes 
