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arcliteologists, to enable them to uiKlerstaiid the fuiKitioiis ofinaiiy stone 

 iuipleiiients in tlieir eabinets. 



An address was also delivered by him on "The Land Problem" before 

 the Brooklyn Ethnological Society. During the year also appeared 

 Mr. Houjuh's "Catalogue of the Bernadou, Allen, and Jouy Korean 

 Collections iu the National Museum/'* and also by the same studeut 

 a paper ou time-keeping by lighting and fire, and another upon the 

 method of fire making. ^Fr. J. D. ^NIcGuire's paper on the "Stone 

 Hammer" was also written in connection with the Department of Eth- 

 nology and was prepared in the Museum. In this same connection 

 should be mentioned the essay by Surg. Washington Matthews, U. S. 

 Army, on the (Jatlin collection of Indian paintings in the National 

 Museum.t Mr. McGruire also prepared a series of objects for the 

 World's Fair to illustrate the processes employed by the North Amer- 

 ican Indian in working stone, by battering, boring, sawing, chip- 

 ping, grinding, and polishing. 



A series of these objects, together with the apparatus used, was 

 disjdayed at the Exposition, and an exact account given of the time and 

 method used in the preparation of each one on an accompanying label. 

 The case containing this collection occupied a ])romineut aisle in the 

 Smithsonian space, and attracted much attention, not only from Ameri- 

 cans, but also from Europeans. 



The most important accessions of American material have been, as 

 usual, through the Bureau of Ethnology, including especially the val- 

 uable collection made in connection with the Exposition by Messrs. 

 Henshaw, Mooney, and Dr. Hottman. Mrs. M. M. Hazen deposited an 

 exceedingly important collection of objects from the Sioux and Eskimo 

 tribes, collected by her late husband, and from Lieut. W. E. Saftbrd 

 was obtained a most important collection of paintings of I'eru by a 

 native artist, as well as a large collection of dress and native material, 

 including the very handsome feather costume, which is mounted upon 

 the single figure of a Xivaro Indian. This was one of the most beau- 

 tiful of the costumed figures shown in Chicago. The ^Museum obtained 

 by purchase the ethnological collection procured by Lieut. Cook during 

 his military services in the West; from Mr. Edward Palmer, a small 

 collection from the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, and from the heirs 

 of Mr. J. Henry Turner, some interesting objects collected on the Upper 

 Yukon, Alaska. Of special interest in this connection, was a wampum 

 belt obtained from Mr. William Thompson, and said to belong to the 

 great Shawnee chief, Tecumseh. 



A small African collection was received from Mr. William Aster C hau- 

 ler, the result of his explorations in the eastern part of the continent, 

 and others were obtained for the National Museum at Loanda by Mr. 

 Heli Chatelain, and by Mr. Carl Steckelman, from Mayumba. 



" Report of the TJ. 8. National Museum, 1S91, ])]). 12!)-4S8, Pis. ii-xxxii. 

 t Report of the l^.S. National Museum, 1890, pp. 593-(>10, Pis. t xxx-CL. 



