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parisoii with tlie tools and appliances brought home by Coramodore Perry ; the 

 collection of Dr. Franz Boas, illustrative of the ceremonial usages of British Colum- 

 bia and the Northwest Coast; of Capt. John G. Bourke, U. S. A., gathered from 

 Indian tribes In the United States during his long engagements on the frontier; of 

 Dr. J. F. Bransford, U. S. N., pottery and other materials from the graves of Nica- 

 ragua; enormous collections from the great Interior Basin and Pueblo region to 

 illustrate the costume and arts of the Shoshonean and Pueblo tribes, also materials 

 gathered by .James ^loouey and others of the Bureau of Ethnology from the tribes 

 iu the Indian Territory; collection of Heli Chatelain, from Angola; large collection 

 from the Chinese Imperial Commission in the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia; 

 a rare old collection from Liberia and vicinity, made by the Colonization Society of 

 Washington; collection illustrative of the games of the world, by Stewart Culin, of 

 Philadelphia; collections especially from South America made by the Government 

 agents for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; collections of William H. 

 Dall, associated with Dr. Tarleton H. Bean and Marcus Baker, in various jiarts of 

 Alaska; collections, well labeled, from the Tlingit Indians, by Lieut. George T. 

 Emmons, U. S. N. ; a small but extremely valuable collection from west Greenland, 

 by (iovernor Fenckner; a precious collection of pottery and other objects from old 

 ruined pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes; collection of 

 William .1. Fisher from the Eskimo and Aleuts on the Alaskan Peninsula, the Island 

 of Kadiak and vicinity; collection of William M. Gabb from Central America; old 

 and precious collections from Oregon and British Columbia, by George Gibbs; a 

 small and rare collection from the west coast of South America, by Lieut. J. M. Gil- 

 liss, T^. S. N. ; a small and extremely rare collection from Fury and Hecla Straits, by 

 Capt. Charles F. Hall; collections of the Geographical and Geological Survey of the 

 Territories, by Dr. F. V. Ilayden ; small collection from north Greenland and Grin- 

 nell Land, by Dr. I. I. Hayes; collection from the Amazon River, by Lieutenant 

 Herndon, U. S. N. ; collection from the Ainos and northern Japanese, by Romyn 

 Hitchcock ; collections from the Indians of the western Great Lakes, by Dr. W. J. 

 Hofi'man; collections from the Swiss lake dwellings, by Prof. Joseph Jillson; col- 

 lections from southeastern Japan, by P. L. Jouy ; collections from the Mackenzie 

 River district, by Mr. Robert Kennicott; royal gift from the King of Siam, through 

 Gen. J. A. Halderman; collection from Cumberland Gulf, by Ludwig Kumlieu; a 

 priceless collection of antiquities from Puerto Rico, by George Latimer; collection 

 from Bristol Bay, by Charles L. McKay; extremely valuable collection from Mac- 

 kenzie River district, by Robert MacFarlane, of the Hudson Bay Company; collec- 

 tion from the Kongo region, by Dorsey Mohun; collection from the Sioux tribes of 

 Dakota, by Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. A. ; an immense collection, covering 

 many thousand number^, from Alaska, by E. W. Nelson ; collections from the South- 

 west and Mexico, by Dr. Edward Palmer; collections from Japan, by Commodore 

 Perry, U. S. N. ; collections from the tribes of Utah, l>y ^laj. J. W. Powell, of the 

 United States Geological Survey ; collections from northern and central California, 

 by Stephen Powers; collections from Kotzebue Sound and of the Hupa Indians from 

 northern California, by Capt. P. H. Ray, U. S. A. ; collection from Tibet, by W. W. 

 Rockhill; collection from the Chukche country and Alaska, by Commodore .John 

 Rodgers, U. S. N. ; collection from the Mackenzie River district, by B. R. Ross, of 

 the Hudson Bay Comjiany ; collection from South America, especially Peru, by Lieut. 

 W. E. Saflford, U. S. N. ; collection by Rev. George W. Samson, from the Holy Land; 

 collection by Paul Shoemaker on the shell heaps of the West Coast, especially Santa 

 Barbara Island; collection of Lieut. G. M. Stoney, U. S. N., from Kotzebue Sound; 

 collection by James G. Swan, from the North Pacific Coast of America; collection 

 by Talcott Williams, from North Africa; collection by Lieut. E. H. Taunt, U. S. N., 

 from the Kongo region; collection of Dr. William M. Thomson, U. S. N., from Easter 

 Island ; collection of Hon. W. P. Tisdell, from the Kongo region ; collection of Lucien 

 M. Turner, from Labrador and North Sound; collection of Capt. G. M. Wheeler, U. 



