DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS 



REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 



(Walter Hough, Head Curator) 



Many things of exceptional value came to the department of 

 anthropology during the year, mostly by gift. Though exploration, 

 the source of first-grade scientific material, was curtailed, archeo- 

 logical work on Kodiak Island and at Point Barrow, Alaska, and 

 exploration of caves in Texas was continued; a reconnaissance was 

 made of remains of Indian irrigation projects and house structure in 

 southern Arizona; and cooperative archeological investigations were 

 pursued in Europe. 



ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR 



The division of ethnology received 48 accessions and 961 speci- 

 mens, compared with 60 accessions and 931 specimens last year. 

 Noteworthy among them is a series of Philippine material, including 

 Moro and other Malay textiles collected by Gen. Tasker H. Bliss 

 while Governor of Moro Province, 1905-9, and presented by Mrs. 

 Bliss; textiles and beadwork of the Moro, Bagobo, and Igorot Tribes 

 collected by the late Capt. Lewis Patstone and presented by Miss 

 M. A. Patstone; and several embroidered garments of Pina cloth, 

 donated by Miss Sarah S. Metcalf. From Cambodia, Indo-China, 

 came a crossbow and from China and Japan large and artistic collec- 

 tions of lacquer, porcelains, brasses, bronzes, ivory carvings, and 

 many objects of minor art. Africa is represented by an inscribed gold 

 ring from the Gold Coast and by a miscellaneous ethnological collec- 

 tion from the Kivu district, Belgian Congo, presented by Miss Ellen 

 I. Burk. A headdress and war club from Rapa Island, Society 

 Group, came as the gift of Stanley W. Bird. Russia is the source of 

 a small collection of brasses, including an excellent samovar, teapot, 

 and tray, the gift of Mrs. F. Ostrach. Mexican material received 

 includes Guadalajara earthenware, the gift of Miss Susan P. Keecli, 

 and horse trappings of braided horsehair. 



By transfer from the Bureau of American Ethnology, a unique 

 collection was received from the Chama Indians of the Ucayali 

 River area of Peru and from several Jivaro groups of eastern Ecuador. 

 This material was obtained by M. W. Stirling, chief of the Beurau, 

 while a member of the Latin- American expedition to eastern Ecuador 



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