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The collection of North American Indian foods, embracing over 

 250 specimens, is classified and on exhibition. The descriptive 

 cards are in the hands of the printer. There are small classified 

 collections of foods from China, India, and other countries, but 

 the miscellaneous collection has not as yet been classified. In rep- 

 resenting the foods of civilized nations, specimens can be obtained 

 very readily when desired. At present the principal collection of 

 such foods is one prepared for the Fisheries Exhibition. It will 

 form a part of that exhibit in the Museum, as only a few representa- 

 tive specimens will be kept out to go with the food collection 

 proper. 



The large collections of the Bureau of Ethnology from Zuni and 

 the Moquis and New Mexican pueblos were, last November, turned 

 over to the National Museum for installation. On the publication 

 of notes by the Bureau, and on the return of Mr. Gushing from 

 Zuni, these collections will be written up. Not enough is known of 

 the ceremonial material to attempt such a thing at present. The 

 collection of pottery is simply exhaustive. It is now in the hands 

 of Mr. Holmes, as is the entire pottery collection of North America. 

 Incidentally, it may be mentioned here that a fine collection of pot- 

 tery was also received from Chiriqui, and is now installed with the 

 North American pottery. 



The general Zuni and Moqui collections comprise 6,370 entries 

 for 1883, but as three or four specimens are sometimes entered under 

 one number, this does not approximate to its real size. It embraces 

 basket ware, pottery, gourds, grinding stones or mortars, weapons, 

 and ceremonial, household, agricultural, and industrial implements. 



A large portion of the archaeological collections of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology from the mounds of the United States was also turned 

 over to the Department of Antiquities some months since. No 

 mention of these specimens was made under that head. Prof. 

 Cyrus Thomas has worked up these collections, and the results are 

 published under the Bureau of Ethnology. Collections have been 

 made under the Bureau, throughout all the important localities from 

 Dakota Territory to Florida, and from Nevada to the New Eng- 

 land States. These collections of aboriginal remains embrace skulls, 

 bones, celts, fragments of pottery, and walls of dwellings, shells, 

 copper and iron implements, flints, flakes, pipes, arrow-heads, per- 

 forated tablets, stone discs, ceremonial stones, etc. 



The entries for 1883 comprise 3,544 numbers, which is much more 



