28 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1930 



Anthropology. — Collections from Alaska again are of major im- 

 portance among the accessions in this department. Among these 

 there are two principal lots of material that have come in part 

 through the assistance of the Smithsonian Institution. Doctor 

 Hrdlicka in travel down the Yukon River obtained rich collections 

 representing Indian and Eskimoan tribes, and in addition obtained 

 valuable sets of ivory implements from the Bering Sea area. Henry 

 B. Collins, jr., in further field work on St. Lawrence Island and sites 

 on the coast of Bering Sea and Kotzebue Sound secured a collection 

 containing man}^ ivory and other implements that are of great 

 value in supplementing his collections of last year. Further there 

 was obtained by purchase a series of specimens from Point Hope 

 representing various phases of Eskimoan culture. The entire lot 

 represents a selection of western Eskimoan artifacts from the earliest 

 times, still further increasing the value of our excellent series of this 

 kind. 



A further collection from Nigeria and the Gold and Ivory coasts 

 of Africa presented by C. C. Roberts has supplemented previous gifts 

 of a similar nature from the same source, until now we have for the 

 first time adequate representation of the Haussa, Fulah, and Yoruba 

 tribes. 



The Department of Agriculture, through Dr. E. W. Brandes of 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry, transferred excellent collections of 

 stone axes, decorated human heads, and other objects from New 

 Guinea. 



Collections from Tibet were presented by Charles S. Isham, of 

 New York, including prayer stones and other objects of a religious 

 nature, as well as materials of personal adornment. Further collec- 

 tions have come from China through the efi'orts of the Rev. D. C. 

 Graham, of Szechwan. 



In American archeology there came three decorated limestone 

 blocks from the Maya Temple of Chac Mool, deposited by the 

 Republic of Mexico tlirough its Secretaria de Educacion. Valuable 

 specimens were obtained from the excavations in Colorado of Dr. 

 Frank H. H. Roberts, jr., of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 and from field work by H. W. Krieger, of the National Museum, 

 in the Dominican Republic, funds for this project having been fur- 

 nished by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Through the Bruce Hughes fund there were acquired artifacts 

 of Sumerian and Babylonian origin for exhibition with other 

 materials from the Old World. 



Biology. — In the department of biology there were secured exten- 

 sive collections as a gift of the National Geographic Society, includ- 

 ing particularly birds and plants collected by Dr. Joseph F. Rock 



