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ment; and in history, a fine lot of laces, linens, and jewelry from Mrs. 

 Woodrow Wilson, a dress of Mrs. Harry S. Truman for the First 

 Ladies collection of gowns, and 93 pistols for the modern firearms 

 series. 



Members of the staff conducted fieldwork in Panama, British 

 Guiana, South West Africa, Thailand, Tahiti, Mexico, Fiji Islands, 

 and many parts of the United States. The Museum issued 18 

 publications. 



National Gallery of Art. — The Gallery had 1,647,470 visitors dur- 

 ing the year, an 8-percent increase over 1951-52. In all, 1,408 acces- 

 sions were received, by gift, loan, or deposit. Works of art accepted 

 included paintings by A. V. Tack, Manet, Berthe Morisot, Sir William 

 Orpen, Leonid, John Kensett, Cranach, Van Dyck, P. Gertner, A. 

 Benson, and B. Bruyn; a bust of Whistler by Sir Joseph Boehm ; and 

 several groups of prints and drawings. Nine special exhibitions were 

 held. Traveling exhibitions of prints from the Kosenwald Collec- 

 tion were circulated to 17 galleries and museums in this country and 

 1 in Canada. Exhibitions from the "Index of American Design" 

 were given 58 bookings in 21 States and the District of Columbia and 

 also in Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Palestine. Over 

 43,000 i)ersons attended the Gallery's special tours and the "Picture 

 of the Week" talks, and 14,000 attended the 39 auditorium lectures on 

 Sunday afternoons. The Sunday evening concerts in the west garden 

 court were continued. 



Natioiml Collection of Fine Arts. — The Smithsonian Art Commis- 

 sion met on December 2, 195*2, and accepted for the National Collec- 

 tion 3 oil paintings, 1 sculpture, 5 pieces of modern glass, and 4 ceramic 

 pieces. An addition of $5,000 was made to the Barney fund. The 

 Gallery held 13 special exhibitions during the year. The Smithsonian 

 Traveling Exhibition Service circulated 32 exhibitions, 20 in the 

 United States and Canada and 12 abroad. 



Freer Gallery of Art. — Purchases for the collections of the Freer 

 Gallery included Chinese x^ainting, bronzes, metalwork, jade, lacquer, 

 and pottery; Persian paintings, pottery, and manuscripts; Indian 

 paintings; and Japanese pottery. More than 71,000 persons visited 

 the Gallery. In May the Gallery adopted a new plan of keeping open 

 to the public on Tuesday evenings, with occasional lectures. 



Bureau of American Ethnology. — ^The anthropologists of the Bu- 

 reau staff continued their researches. Dr. Stirling on mid-American 

 archeology, Dr. Collins on the Eskimo and Arctic anthropology, Dr. 

 Harrington on Indian linguistics and the California Indians, and Dr. 

 Drucker on the ethnology of Mexico and the northwest coast of 

 North America. Dr. Roberts continued as Director of the River 

 Basin Surveys, and Dr. Foster as Director of the Institute of Social 

 .Anthropology (to the time of its termination on December 31). 



