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79 specimens representing Chinese opera, purchased with aid of the 

 Chinese National Government; 116 items relating to agriculture and 

 daily life in Japan, obtained from the Japanese Association of Mu- 

 seums; a Hindu village altar assemblage of 40 specimens, purchased 

 with assistance of the Government of Orissa, Bhubanaswar, and the 

 Crafts Museum, New Delhi ; 255 Burmese items purchased from the 

 collector, Brian Peacock, University of Kangoon ; 226 specimens mostly 

 from Isfahan and dealing with Iran textile printing, collected and 

 donated by Mrs. Ethel J. W. Bunting ; 76 items of Korean furniture, 

 architectural pieces, and objects of everyday use, presented by the 

 Korean Ministry of Public Information; 5 traditional Japanese 

 swords, with scabbards and a leather sword case, presented by Adm. 

 William M. Fechteler; a ceremonial bone apron from Tibet, by ex- 

 change from Simon Kriger, Washington, D.C. ; and 3 large rubbings 

 of stone relief from the Bayon at Angkor, donated by the Kingdom 

 of Cambodia. To the African collections were added 60 items from 

 the Endo-Marakwet of Kenya, purchased for the Museum by Deric 

 O'Bryan, formerly U.S. Foreign Service Officer in Nairobi; and full- 

 scale copies of six rock paintings from the Tassili Mountains of Al- 

 geria, made at the Musee de I'Homme under direction of Henri Lhote. 



Among the accessions in the division of physical anthropology are 

 two casts of trephined skulls from Peru, one with five and the other 

 with seven openings ; these will be exhibited as examples of the number 

 of trephine openings which have been made in a skull in vivo. Two 

 Kraho Indian face masks from central Brazil were made for the 

 Museum by Harold Schultz. One is to be incorporated in the map of 

 peoples of the world in the new hall of physical anthropology in prep- 

 aration. Other accessions include skeletal materials from Virginia, 

 Maryland, Latin America, and Alaska. 



Zoology. — A currently accelerated program of field activities in the 

 division of mammals added 14,869 specimens to its collections. Field 

 parties working under the direction of Dr. Henry W. Setzer collected 

 more than 5,000 specimens from Africa and southwestern Asia. The 

 tropical areas of the Americas continued to provide large numbers 

 of specimens. Of special note are Dr. C. O. Handley's general collec- 

 tions from Panama and Arthur M. Greenhall's large collection of 

 bats from Trinidad. Important accessions also include a rare marbled 

 cat from Sumatra presented by Kent Crane, a series of baboons ob- 

 tained by Clifford E. Sanders in Northern Rhodesia, South American 

 marmosets received from the National Institutes of Health Primate 

 Colony at the San Diego Zoo through Robert W. Cooper, and a good 

 series of canids allied to red wolves from the south-central part of the 

 United States received through the Fish and Wildlife Sei*vice. 



Accessions worthy of special note received in the division of birds 



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