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year in the history of the Museum and include individual specimens 

 and collections of high value and great importance. Materials of 

 various kinds received for examination and report during the year 

 amounted to 1,297 lots, including many thousands of separate speci- 

 mens. Gifts of duplicate materials to schools and other educational 

 organizations included 7,384 specimens, while exchanges of dupli- 

 cate materials with other institutions and individuals amounted to 

 33,471 specimens, for which there was received in return material 

 needed for our collections. Loans to scientific workers outside of 

 Washington amounted to 31,516 specimens. 



Following is a digest of the more important accessions for the 

 year in the various departments and divisions of the Museum. 



Anthropology. — Alaska again has yielded most important acces- 

 sions to the department of anthropology, the material coming 

 through explorations financed by the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Doctor Hrdlicka this year visited the Kuskokwim Valley, the 

 Alaska Peninsula, and adjacent islands, obtaining valuable materials 

 from a region that so far has not been represented in our collections. 

 Work was continued on St. Lawrence Island by Henry B. Collins, jr., 

 who secured additional collections of value in connection with his 

 previous materials from this area. Through our continuing pro- 

 gram of exploration the Museum now possesses the most complete 

 and valuable collection in existence of the ancient ivory culture of 

 the Bering Sea region. 



Of equal importance in this department has been the bequest of 

 the American Indian collection of the late Victor J. Evans, of Wash- 

 ington. This collection, deposited by the executors of the Evans 

 estate, Mrs. Victor J. Evans and Arthur L. Evans, numbers approx- 

 imately 5,000 specimens, comprising costumes, weapons of war and 

 the chase, pottery, basketry, domestic implements, oil paintings, and 

 other valuable materials illustrative of the life of the American 

 Indian, many of the objects being now impossible of duplication. 



A further collection from west Africa was received as a gift from 

 C. C. Koberts, this material representing the native tribes of Ashanti, 

 Benin, and the Gold and Ivory Coasts. The Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington presented a miniature plaster model of the stucco- 

 covered Pyramid E-VII sub at Uaxactun in Guatemala, the oldest 

 known -example of Mayan architecture. Under the Bruce Hughes 

 fund of the Smithsonian Institution there were obtained various 

 antiquities from Mesopotamia and Persia for exhibition. ^Vs a gift 

 from His Majesty George V of England there has come a chenille 

 Axminster carpet made in 1851. 



Textiles, and bone, wood, and stone implements from caves in 

 northeastern Arizona occupied by prehistoric Basket Maker and 



