REPORT OF ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 67 



DEPARTMENT OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY, 



The curator of tliis departmeut, Dr. Thomas Wilson, states that the 

 material received during- the year has been fully up to the general 

 average, so far as scientitic value is concerned. The total number of 

 permanent accessions was 117, while 52 lots of material were received 

 for examination and report. • 



The accessions of special imi)ortauce are as follows: 



Dr. Eoland Steiner of Groveton, Georgia, deposited a large collection, 

 consistingof more than 10,000 specimensof implements and othei'objects 

 from an aboriginal village site on the Iviokee Creek, Columbia County, 

 Georgia. From the Bureau of American Ethnology was received acollec- 

 tion of anti(iuities found in mounds and stone graves in Missouri and Illi- 

 nois. The material consists principally of pottery bowls and vases, 

 although there are a number of stone implements and otlier objects. The 

 collection included altogether about o~>0 specimens. The U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission transmitted 41 archeological objects found while excavating for 

 fish ])onds at its station at Sau Marcos, Texas, and a collection of about 

 350 specimens from the same locality was received from Mrs. Joseph D. 

 Sayers. Another collection from the Bureau of Ethnology consisted of 

 240 prehistoric stone implements from different localities in Colorado 

 and Kansas. These were collected by Messrs. G. K. (Jilbei-t and F. H. 

 Newell of the U. S. Geological Survey. Dr. Thomas Wilson deposited 

 a series of 10 objects from a stone grave near IsTashville, Tennessee, and 

 a collection of 64 objects from the Noel Cemetery, Glendale Pai k, near 

 Nashville. From the Smithsonian Institution was received a collection 

 of im[)lements an<l other objects gathered by Miss Emma Delafield 

 while traveling in ^Mexico several years ago. Dr. Thomas Featherston- 

 haugh of Washington, Districtof Columbia, presented 55 objects found in 

 a burial cave near Lake Apopka, southern Florida. Miss Georgie L. 

 Leonard, Washington, District of Columbia, deposited a hook of luitive 

 hammered coi)per, found in the glacial drift in the valley of the Sault 

 Ste. Marie River, on the Michigan side. 



Other collections were: From M. de Morgan, Gizeh Museum, Cairo, 

 Egypt, a collection of 252 specimens (exchange); from Mr. Clarence B. 

 Moore, 1.321 Locust street, Philadeli)hia, a large pottery burial urn 

 from a mound in Bryan County, Georgia (gift); from Mr. Henry S. 

 Washington, Locust, New -Jersey, a rude stone ax or pick found at 

 Beni Hassan, on the Nile, I^jgypt, also a hammer stone from Greece, 

 (gift); from Mr. Byron E. Dodge, KiciifieUl, Michigan, a collection of 

 30 specimens found in Genesee County, Michigan (di'j)osit); from Dr. 

 Felix Adler, New York City, 30 specimens of pottery obtained from 

 a cave at Dos Caminos, near Acapuho, Mexico (exchange); from Mr. 

 •L W. Emmert, Bristol, Tennessee, 3!J4 specimens, principally from Sul- 

 li\au County, in that State, (purchase); from the Canterbury Museum, 

 Christchurch, New Zealand, 11 flint knives, scrapers, etc. (gift); from 



