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presented by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Green. Another acquisition of 

 note, a stylistically carved wooden treasure box, "waka," originally 

 presented to President Calvin Coolidge by the assembled chiefs of the 

 Arawa, was transferred from the Department of State. The Arawa, 

 a federation of Maori tribes living on the east coast of New Zealand's 

 North Island, claim descent from members of the Arawa, the legend- 

 ary voyaging canoe that brought the Maori to New Zealand. A 

 notable collection of ceramic tiles given to the division by E. Stanley 

 Wires, ranges from early Moorish, Spanish, and Dutch tiles to Amer- 

 ican types of recent manuf acthure. They are the result of Mr. Wires's 

 lifetime interest in the history of tile manufacturing. Through the 

 efforts of Mr. Wires, the tile collection was further enhanced by a pair 

 of ceramic tile panels with animal designs in relief, sculptured by the 

 late Frederick G. R. Roth and presented by his widow. 



Other donations to the ethnological collections include a total of 

 170 examples of Rockwood and other late nineteenth century and early 

 twentieth century pottery assembled by the late Dr. Edwin Kirk and 

 presented by his widow, Mrs. Page Kirk; 17 examples of stoneware 

 and pottery made by country potters in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and 

 West Virginia, given by Clyde N. Fahrney ; and numerous glass and 

 ceramic specimens together with documented papers and account books 

 presented by Miss Madeleine Wilkinson. 



The division of archeology received a collection of 187 polished 

 jadeite and other stone objects from La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico, as a 

 permanent loan from the Museo Nacional, Mexico. These include 

 beads, celts, figurines, ear-spool parts, and other objects representing 

 the prehistoric Olmec culture of southeastern Mexico. A group of 

 conch-shell segments elaborately carved with anthropomorphic and 

 ceremonial art motifs in the style of the late prehistoric Southern 

 Cult, from the Spiro Mound, near Spiro, Okla., was received as an 

 indefinite loan from the Lightner Museum of Hobbies, St. Augustine, 

 Fla. A large collection of pre-Spanish Peruvian artifacts consisting 

 of carved wood, metal, textiles, stone, and pottery, collected about 1910 

 in Peru by Alexander J. Norris, was presented as a gift by his 

 daughter, Mrs. Joseph C. Green, and her husband. A large collec- 

 tion of archeological material excavated from prehistoric sites on 

 Hokkaido Island, Japan, was generously donated by Lt. Col. Howard 

 MacCord, who has added many unusual objects to the collections. 



A series of pathological human bones from Calhoun and Jersey 

 Counties, 111., was donated to the division of physical anthropology by 

 Dr. P. F. Titterington. Many of the examples of pathology are un- 

 usual and extremely interesting from the standpoint of the history of 

 disease. All the material relates to a late prehistoric period. A collec- 

 tion of 85 skulls received from the Wistar Institute of Philadelphia 



