94 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, l«y3. 



Uruguay sent a small but well-displayed coUectiou of stoue iuipleiueuts, com- 

 prisiug bolas, rlub heads, airowlieads, scrapers, hamuiei- stoues, mortars, stoue and 

 pottery vessels, bono awls, pitted stoues, and many polishers aud grinders. There 

 were a number of probable club heads, square to oblong iu shape, roughly brokea 

 from schistose rock, which slightly resemble the obsidian heads irom Easter Islaud 

 in the Thomson collection at the National Museum. The greater part of these 

 remarkably rude objects have four cusps, aud are constricted midway apparently 

 for purposes of hafting. 8ome of the pebbles with one smootli central })it are 

 apparently head pieces of a drill. A good series of photographs of stone imple- 

 ments accompany this collection. These specimens are interesting, since they are 

 from a new field. 



Spain showed the treasures of the Archeological Museum aud the Museum of Nat- 

 ural Sciences, which are especially rich in Peruvian and Mexican archeojogy. From 

 the former country there were numerous mummies, hafted stone implements, and 

 other objects taken from graves, cult apparatus, stoue aud metal work, splendid 

 textiles and feather work, musical instruments, and au imuieuse series of pottery, in 

 which ai-e many groups of pieces evidently froiu the same luold. The ex(iuisite 

 Peruvian coat from the Ri yal Museum was a marvel, which for fineness of faln-ic, 

 color, ornamentation, aud finish it is difticult to believe has ever been surpassed. 

 There were also many other examples of fine Peruvian textiles. 



The famous Troano and Cortesian codices were disjdayed, and also a great deal 

 of stone and metal work, pottery, etc., from Mexico. One case of pottery and some 

 stone idols, labeled " frauds," were very suggestive. There were also small groups 

 of specimens from South and Central America, aud ethnologica from various states. 

 The Alaskan and other Indian specimens were in few cases localized, the objects 

 having been collected before such information was deemed necessary. The museums 

 labor under this difficulty, and there is a good field for comparative work. The 

 Northwest coast masks, hats, adzes, carvings, armor, etc., were collected more than 

 one hniulred years ago by the Malespina expedition and range from British Colum- 

 bia to Sitka. A collection of arrowheads, sent by Dr. W. J. Hoffman, occupied a 

 prominent place. The museum of Natural Sciences had on exhiliition a large collec- 

 lection of miuerals and botauical specimens brought back from America by Spanish 

 explorers. The museums have been benefited by the infusion of new blood; Mr. 

 Narciso Seutenach and .lose Ramon Melida are young men, who promise to do excel- 

 lent work. 



The Portuguese exhibit contained a few American specimens used for decor.ition, 

 with other objects from difterent quarters of the globe, forming what was appar- 

 ently a fisheries exhibit. There were splendid paintings and metal work of the 

 fourteenth aud fifteeuth centuries, which should have been installed in the European 

 exposition upstairs. Two rare Sandwich Island feather cloaks aud souie helmets 

 were shown. The locality of few specimens was known. 



Austria ctuitributed au excellent exhibit of mound pottery aud other objects from 

 the United States. This collection was under the care of Dr. Wilbelm Hein. of 

 Vienna, who is an enthusiastic worker in the field of ethnology. 



Germany sent casts of the sculptures of Santa Lucia Cozuniahualpa, iu (iuate- 

 mala, consisting of large bas-reliefs, monkeys' heads, human figures, and a largo 

 brazier in the Ethnographical Museum of. Berlin. Two anticjue Mexican feather 

 shields from Stuttgart, and a great number of illustrations aud photographs were 

 displayed. The gold objects from Colombia iu this collection were in an elegant 

 burglar and fire-proof case, so fitted that the tablets upon which the specimens 

 were mounted could be lowered into a steel vault and secured for the night. Dr. 

 Edward Seler, of the Royal Ethnographical Museum of Berlin, was iu charge, aud 

 most of the specimens were collected by him. 



Sweden showed the fine collection of eai'ly maps, globes, and mauuscripts of Baron 

 Xordeuskijnld. the collections from the Chukcliis aud the Eskimo of Port Clarence, 



