III.-REPORT UPON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR 18S4. 



By CiiAKLES Rau, Curator. 



IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS. 



John J. McLeaiiy Cape Mendocitio, Ilumboldt County, California. — Col- 

 lection from shell-heaps near Cape Meudociuo : Stone chips and flakes, 

 rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, rude arrow-heads, shells of 

 different species (all determined), plates of Cryptochiton Stelleri and of 

 Chiton (species undetermined), echinus-shell, and teeth of canine ani- 

 mals. 



R. E. C. Stearns, United States National Museum. — Collections received 

 at difterent times during the year : Mortars and pestles from Placer 

 County, California ; 9 species of shells from shell-heaps at Rocky Point 

 and Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, and from Way Keys (one of the Cedar 

 Keys group of islands), Florida ; 8 casts of a stone pestle (metamorjihic 

 sandstone), found on Santa Cruz Island, California; 8 casts of a stone 

 pestle found at an elevation of 1,500 feet, near Point Sal, Santa Barbara 

 County, California, and 7 ca^ts of a serpentine sinker, found on the 

 university grounds at Berkeley, Alameda County, California ; flakes, 

 rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, cutters, and arrow-heads, 

 all of obsidian, also pestles, mortars, and fruit-crushers, from Howell 

 Mountain, "Napa County, California ; cast of a (Virved ceremonial weapon, 

 original found at Saint Helen, Columbia County, Oregon; cast of a 

 stone dish with handle, found deeply imbedded in auriferous gravel 

 near Oregon Bar, North Fork of American River, Placer County, Cali- 

 fornia, and casts of 2 clay images found in Aztec graves, while con- 

 structing water-works at Medellin, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



TT'. W. Evans, Keic RocJielle, Westchester County, New York. — Small 

 collection of stone arrow-heads, bone, copper, and shell fish-hooks, a 

 worked belemnito (?), and a stone be^d from Chili, South America. 



J.E. Gere,Riceville, Washington County, Wisconsin. — Collection ofst^ne 

 sci-ai)er.s, cutting-tools, arrow and spear heads, celts, &c., from the vicin- 

 ity of Riceville. 



lAent. 0. M. Wheeler, United States Geogi'aphical Surveys. — Specimens 

 collected by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, and .Air. H. W. Hen- 

 shaw in .June and July, 1875, from graves at Dos Pueblos and La Patera, 



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