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ical and general archeological observations made in the far West 

 during pre\ ious years. This will appear in the Annual Report of the 

 Museum for L901. In addition, he has spent much time in completing 

 the manuscript and illustrations for a large work on ancient pottery of 

 the United States, begun some years ago, and has entered upon the 

 work of preparing a full report on the great industries of mining and 

 quarrying among the native 1 tribes. 



As already mentioned, a large part of the year has been taken up 

 with the preparation of an exhibit for the Pan-American Exposition. 

 This work consisted of the construction of life-sized lay figure groups 

 of type tribes of our aborigines, comprising some 60 figures of men, 

 women, and children. The designing of the groups and the super- 

 vision of the work fell almost wholly to the lot of the head curator. 

 The same may be said of the preparation of 16 dwelling group models 

 described in connection with full accounts of the lay figure groups in 

 the appendix to this report. 



Professor Mason, curator of the Division of Ethnology, has pub- 

 lished in The Anthropologist a paper on American basketry technic 

 and made investigations for enlarging this study for a monograph on 

 the subject. He had given much time to the ethnology of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, so as to be prepared for any questions that might arise, 

 and has, in association with the head curator, compiled a paper 

 embodying detailed instructions to collectors in the Philippines. He 

 translated for the Secretary, who has published them in his report, 

 the papers of Blumentritt and Virchow on this subject, and assisted, 

 as a member of the United States Board on Geographic Names, to fix 

 the nomenclature of the islands. 



Professor Mason has also completed a study on American aboriginal 

 harpoons and has read the proof of the result, which will appear as a 

 paper in the Museum report for 1900. 



On the return of Col. F. F. Hilder from the Philippines, Professor 

 Mason undertook the task of cataloguing the large collection made, 

 and the elaborate labels used on the collection at the Pan-American 

 Exposition were all prepared by him. During the winter much of 

 Professor Mason's time was taken up in preparing labels for the exten- 

 sri e ethnological exhibit made by the Department of Anthropology at 

 this exposition. 



Dr. Thomas Wilson, Curator of the Division of Prehistoric Arche- 

 ology, was invited by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, at 

 the beginning of the present fiscal year, to attend a series of interna- 

 tional congresses to be held at Paris, France, during the exposition of 

 L900, and sailed for that country on the Netherlands steamer Maasdam 

 on August I. arriving at Boulogne-sur-Mer on the 13th. He attended 

 the Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archeology, before 

 which he presented two papers: "Prehistoric archeology in America" 



