REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



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Accession 

 number 



121824. 

 122561. 



122690. 

 122097. 

 122701. 



122704. 



Seventeen daguerreotypes, thirteen ambrotypes, and one tintype of 

 Indian subjects which had accumulated in DeLancey Gill's ofBce. 



One lot of turkey bones {Meleagris gallapavo) , nymph of bug of family 

 Reduviidae, and two fragments of swamp cane collected by W. M. 

 Walker from the Jonesville mound, La. 



Decorated potsherd from Weedcn Island mound, Tampa Bay., Fla., 

 presented to the Bureau by D. I. Bushnell, Jr. 



Coiled i)ottery jar and sev'eral decorated potsherds from Kcams Can- 

 yon, Ariz., transferred to the Bureau by the Office of Indian Affairs. 



Pottery bowl and pottery tobacco pipe made by the Tule Indians of 

 the village of Mulatupa on San Bias coast of Panama, sent to the 

 Bureau b}' A. G. Cleveland. 



Collection of ethnological specimens from the Jivaro Indians of the 

 Upano, Santiago, Chinganasa and Alto Maranon Rivers of eastern 

 Ecuador; archeological and ethnological objects from the Chama 

 Indians of the Ucayali River in Peru; two copper and two stone 

 axes from Mendez, Ecuador, and one stone ax from the Upper Yaupe 

 River, Ecuador; and a collection of land snail shells from the Upper 

 Paute River in the vicinity of Mendez, Ecuador, collected by M. 

 W. Stirling in 1932. 

 122705. Slab of shell-tempered pottery used as part of a grave lining from an 

 Indian grave near Nashville, Tenn., sent to the Bureau by P. E. 

 Cox. 

 122979. Quirt and beaded bag collected by George R. Cassedy at Pawnee 

 Junction, Nebr., in 1869 from Buckskin Charlie (a Sioux) and pre- 

 sented to the Bureau by E. G. Cassedy. 

 124507. Six projectile points from Yuma County, Colo., sent to the Bureau by 

 Everett Harte of Wray, Colo. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



During the course of the year information was furnished by mem- 

 bers of the Bureau staff in reply to numerous inquiries concerning 

 the North American Indians, both past and present, and the Mexican 

 peoples of the prehistoric and early liistoric periods. Various speci- 

 mens sent to the Bureau were identified and data on them furnished 

 for their owTiers. 



Personnel. — E. G. Cassedy was appointed illustrator on November 

 25, 1932. 



Respectfully submitted. 



M. W. Stirling, Chief. 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



