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and Peru, and scientifically is the outstanding collection of the year, 

 though intrinsically the gift of imperial Chinese porcelains, brasses, 

 and other objects of high art secured in Peiping by Gen. Charles A. 

 Coolidge in 1900, and presented by Mrs. Coolidge, is of first rank. 

 The Mrs. Alexius McGlannan collection of Japanese, Chinese, and 

 European folk and minor arts is likewise highly valuable. 



The bequest to the National Museum by the late Osage chief, 

 Tom Baconrind, of his personal belongings and ceremonial parapher- 

 nalia aroused unusual interest, as Chief Baconrind was prominent in 

 Oklahoma and learned in the ceremonial lore of his tribe. He assisted 

 the late Francis La Flesche, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in 

 his studies of the Osage language. The Baconrind gift includes 

 decorative embellishments of native Indian, peyote, and Christian 

 cult elements. A valuable addition to the collection of historical and 

 comparative religious art is the large gift from the estate of Mrs. Alice 

 Pike Barney. 



In the division of archeology 64 new accessions, totaling 2,737 

 specimens, were added, as against 69 accessions and 6,712 specimens 

 during the previous year. The following are worthy of special 

 notice: 339 stone, bone, and wooden implements, basketry, and other 

 materials collected by Frank M. Setzler from six caves in Brewster 

 County, Tex.; 477 flint implements from Aurignacian, Upper Paleo- 

 lithic, and other early cultural horizons in two caves at the foot of 

 Mount Carmel, Palestine, collected by the American School of 

 Prehistoric Research and received as a loan from the Archaeological 

 Society of Washington; 789 stone, bone, and ivory implements and 

 ornaments collected by Dr. Ales Hrdli6ka on Kodiak Island, Alaska; 

 58 specimens of stone and copper implements and pottery collected in 

 Ecuador by M. W. Stirling; 218 stone artifacts from Monasuka- 

 panough and other Indian village sites, mostly in Albemarle County, 

 Va., collected and presented by D. I. Bushnell, Jr.; 58 stone, shell, and 

 earthenware objects from five village sites in Puerto Rico, collected 

 by Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.; 26 earthenware vessels and stone implements 

 from Ometepe Island, Lake Nicaragua, presented by Corp. Emil 

 M. Krieger; 9 wood carvings, copper pins, and an earthenware effigy 

 collected at Pachacamac and other prehistoric sites in Peru and 

 presented by George Hewitt Myers; a quipu, or knotted string record, 

 and 15 fragments of textiles from Pachacamac and Trapiche ruins, 

 Peru, a gift from Mrs. J. P. Compton; 38 lots of potsherds, bone 

 projectile points, and implements from the Gran Chaco of Argentina, 

 from E. R. Wagner, Museo Arcaico Provincial, Santiago del Estero, 

 Argentina. 



In the division of physical anthi'opology 18 accessions, 658 speci- 

 mens, included important skull and skeletal material from Kodiak 

 Island, Aleutian Islands, Point Barrow, and St. Lawrence Island, 



