REPORT ON THE SECTION OF AMERICAN ABORIGINAL POTTERY 

 IN THE l. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, L889. 



By William Tf. Holmes, Honorary Curator. 



Little work has been required in this section beyond the reception 

 and installation of new accessions. The collections and additions for 

 the year fall considerably short of those of preceding years. Through 

 >ur official collectors, chiefly agents of the Bureau of Ethnology, 532 

 specimens have been received. Through purchase we have 151, and 

 through donation IV>~>. 



Among the more important collections are donations of pottery from 

 ^ mound near Lake Apopka, Florida, by Dr. Featherstonehaugh, and 

 r>f pottery from a mound on Perdido Bay, Alabama, by Mr. F. H. Par- 

 dons. The latter collection is one of the most important ever received 

 from the Gulf coast. 



Researches connected with this section made by the curator were 

 limited to a study of the pottery of the Potomac tidewater region. A 

 paper upon this subject will appear in the July number of the American 

 Anthropologist. 



The last catalogue number in .luue, 1888, is 134497, in June, 1889, 



135131. 



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