REPORT <>l ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 1.43 



Bureau of JEihnology. — Through the courtesy of the Director, Maj. J. 

 W. Powell, the Department of American Prehistoric Pottery in the 

 National Museum, which was est lblished several years ago, was placed 

 under the direction of Mr. YV. 11. Holmes, who has since acted as Hon- 

 orary Curator. Through his efforts this department has attained a 

 prominent place in the development of the work of the National 

 Museum. 



During the year the following collections of pottery, stone implements, 

 woven fabrics, shells-beads, etc., were transferred to the Museum by 

 the Bureau of Ethnology : 



YV. YV. Adams sent shell beads from Onion Springs, New York; 

 E. Bohan, pottery from Mexico ; Arthur P. Davis, pottery from Pu- 

 eblo Alto, New Mexico; Gerard Fowke, pottery from Yellow Lake, 

 Wisconsin ; Dr. L. YV. Gill, stone objects from Chain Bridge, Vir- 

 ginia; Williain A. Hakes, pottery fragments and stone objects from 

 Susquehanna Valley, New York ; H. P. Hamilton, pottery fragments 

 from Two Rivers, Wisconsin ; H. W. Henshaw, one medicine stone 

 collected by L. L. Frost, Susauville, California; W. H. Holmes, 

 pottery and stone objects from New Mexico ; G. H. Hurlbut, woven 

 fabrics from Aucou, Peru; C. C.Jones, pottery fragments from Stal- 

 iugs Island, Georgia; James D. Middleton, pottery fragments from 

 Irvinetou, Pennsylvania; Maj. J. W.Powell, pottery and stone objects 

 from near Abiquiu, Mexico; James Stevenson, pottery Trom Mold, 

 Arizona, eight hundred and fifty-one specimens of pottery, stone, and 

 other objects from New Mexico, sixty-eight specimens of stone, imple- 

 ments from Mold, Arizona, one stone ball from Jemes Springs, New 

 Mexico, thirty-two specimens from Flagstaff, Arizona ; Dr. Taylor, pot- 

 tery fragments from near Mobile, Alabama; General G. P. Thurston, 

 pottery fragments from suburb of Nashville, Tennessee; James P. Til- 

 ton, pottery fragments from Newburyport, Massachusetts : Charles L. 

 P. Wheeler, one cast of stone knife from Westchester County, New 

 York. Through -lames Mooney, a collection of ethnological specimens 

 from the Fast Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina ; fragments of pot- 

 tery from New Mexico, collected by Maj. J. W. Powell; pottery from 

 Jemes Valley New Mexico, collected by W. H. Holmes ; pottery from 

 Irvington, Warren County, Pennsylvania, collected by -lames 1). Mid- 

 dleton ; fragment of pottery from Yellow Fake, Burnet County, Wis- 

 consin, collected by Gerard Fowke j pottery and. modern Cherokee work 

 from theEasI Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, collected i»\ .lames 



Mooiie\ ; fragments of pottery from Pueblo Alto, New Mexico, collected 

 by Arthur P. Davis; pottery from Oraibi Moki, Arizona, collected by 

 Victor Mindeleff. 



J.— EXPLORATIONS. 



The collections of the National Museum have received valuable ad- 

 ditions through, the co operation of several -cut lemen \\ bo have offered 



