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secured. Dr. Walter I lough began work in connection with Mr. Peter 

 Gr. Gates in the Pueblo country, in June, and by the end of the fiscal 

 year had reported very flattering progress. Prof. J. B. Steere, of Ann 

 A rbor, Michigan, made collections on the Upper Purus River, in Brazil. 

 William A. Cook forwarded many valuable objects from the Bororo, a 

 Tupian tribe dwelling near the headwaters of the Paraguay, in Brazil. 

 Lieut, G. T. Emmons, Q. S. Na\y, secured much valuable material from 

 British Columbia and Alaska; and of special interest and importance 

 is the outfit for a Chilcat family, now utilized in one of the Pan- 

 American Exposition lay-figure groups. 



Two expeditions sent out by the Government board of the Pan- 

 American Exposition secured most valuable accessions, now displayed 

 at Buffalo. These expeditions were conducted, one by Dr. W J 

 McGee, in Sonora, Mexico, and the other by Col. F. F. Hilder, in 

 the Philippines. 



Dr. Roland Steiner, though not officially attached to the Museum, 

 continued his investigations and searches into quarries, workshops, 

 and village sites of his own neighborhood near and at the mouth of 

 Shoulderbone Creek and on Little Kiokee River, Georgia, and has 

 collected many thousands of specimens of prehistoric artifacts, all of 

 which are, now deposited in this Museum. 



Seven papers on anthropological subjects have been furnished dur- 

 ing the year by members of the staff of this department. Two are b} r 

 the head curator, Mr. W. H. Holmes. One of these relates to the 

 obsidian mines of Hidalgo, Mexico, while the other is a review of the 

 evidence relating to early man in California, as furnished by the aurif- 

 erous gravels. 



The curator of ethnology, Prof. Otis T. Mason, prepared a paper 

 entitled "Traps of the Amerinds," which was published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 

 also one relating to the pointed canoes of the Kootenai River in Wash- 

 ington and those used on the Amur, and a third, describing a primi- 

 tive heddle frame for weaving narrow fabrics, in use among the Indians 

 of the Mississippi Valley and the Pueblo region, and also throughout 

 the Eastern States and in Europe. 



The full titles of all these papers will be found in the bibliography 

 (Appendix IV), arranged under the names of their respective authors. 



Facilities for the study of museum collections have been afforded a 

 number of students. Much material relating to primitive games has 

 been forwarded to Dr. Stewart Culin, of the Museum of Science and 

 Art, in Philadelphia; and various articles bearing upon Asiatic con- 

 tact with the west coast of America have been placed at the disposal 

 of Dr. Franz Boas, of the American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



