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Abbott, W. L. , birds' pjjq;s presented ]>y ''2, (U 



birds from Andaman and Nicobar islands jiresented l)y '■'>'■->. <)2, 70 



eggs collected ])y - ''^ 



ethnological collections received from 22, 54, 57 



explorations of, in East Indies 29, 57, 62 



zoological collections received from 24, '.VA, 62 



Al)enaki Indian 1 )asketmaker ••"-' 



Indians, basketry, borders 260 



Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art witbout Macbinery, 



by Otis Tufton Mason bS5 



Accessions, biological 62 



Department of Geology 77 



Museum, list of 87 



received annually since 1881, table sbowing nund)er of 28 



during year, number of 21 



sources of - 21 



A ccessories used in basketry ~ 222 



Acorn barvest, description of 349 



musb maker, Pomo, outfit '^50 



Act of Congress, 1846, founding Smitbsonian Institution 3 



Additions to tbe collections 21 



Administrative assistant, U. S. National ]\Iuseum 4.S, 85 



staff 86 



Admire meteorite 83 



Adornment and dress, use of basketry 342 



Agassiz, Alexander, titles and notices of joint papers by 138 



Agriculture, Department of, assistants of, wbo consulted collection of birds.. . 75 



laboratory work 75 



plants transmitted by 26, 67 



Aht, basketry -117 



Alaska and the North Pacific, basketry 391 



Alaskan Eskimo, basketry 396 



Bering Sea, ))asket making 219 



coiled basket 251, 402 



province, basket-making tribes and families 364 



Alaskas, 1 )asket making 848, 349 



Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa, exchange received from 31 



Aleutian basketry -103 



ornamentation 404 



twined - 404, 405 



Aleuts, basket making 287 



symbolism 319 



«As an index to Mr. Leonhard Stejneger's paper, The Herpetology of Porto Rico 

 (this volume, pp. 549-724), -was specially prepared by its author, the titles in that 

 paper are omitted in this index. 



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