18 BEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Department of Aoricultiirc, and the Bureau of American Ethnology of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, though valuable contributions are occa- 

 sionally obtained from other In-anches of the Government service, and 

 officers of tlie Army and Navy stationed in the new possessions have, 

 in their individual capacity, been rendering much assistance. A very 

 large share of the additions to the collections is, however, received 

 from private individuals and establishments through donation and 

 exchange, and the exhibition series derives many of its attractive 

 feature's from loans or deposits. Field collecting l)y members of the 

 Museum staff is almost prohibited by the lack of funds, and the acqui- 

 sition of specimens by purchase is seriously restricted because of the 

 small amount appropriated for that purpose. 



A complete list of the accessions foi- the year is given in Appendix 

 11, and the important ones are described in the reports of the head 

 curators. Only some of the more noteworthy ones will, therefore, be 

 referred to in this connection. 



The total number of specimens added in the Department of Anthro- 

 pologv was 24,319, of which 16,181 specimens belonged in the Division 

 of Prehistoric Archeology, 4,517 in Ethnology, and 1,502 each in 

 History and the Graphic Arts. One of the most valuable acquisitions 

 consisted of material recently collected by Dr. AV. L. Abbott in 

 Sumatra and the Straits Settlements, and illustrated the native arts 

 and industriesof a region but poorly represented in American museums. 

 The many objects, numbering over 1,500, secured in the Philippine 

 Islands b}" the late Col. F. F. Hilder, of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnolog}^ for the Government exhibit at the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion, have been turned over to the Museum by the Government Board. 

 This collection is of especial interest in that it furnishes much author- 

 itative information regarding the life and customs of the natives of 

 the largest of our new possessions. Dr. Frank Russell, formerly of 

 the Bureau of American P^thnology, secured important material from 

 'the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, which, together with many 

 ethnological objects from other sources, have been transferred by the 

 Bureau to the custody of the Museum. Several collections made by 

 Lieut. G. T. Emmons, of the United States Navy, illustrating the arts 

 of the Chilcat and other Alaskan tribes, have also been acquired. 



An extremely noteworthy collection deposited in the Museum by 

 Mr. S. S. Rowland, of Washington, D. C, consists of objects repre- 

 senting Buddhist religious art, such as bronze and wooden images of 

 Buddha and Buddhist saints, shrines, temple lamps, and sacred writ- 

 ings on palm leaves, and also of several oriental manuscripts in 

 Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages. Miss Eliza R. Scidmore, of 

 AVashington, also deposited a number of examples of Buddhist and 

 Hindu religious art. Twenty-eight Jewish ceremonial objects from 

 North Africa were obtained from Mr. Ephraim Deinard, of Kearney, 

 New Jersey, one of the most interesting })ieces being an ark of carved 



