THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Some of the material collected by Dr. Berthold Laufer in 

 China, mentioned in the Journal for January, has been placed 

 on exhibition in the northeastern quarter of Hall No. 207, on the 

 main floor of the building. The most striking objects are four 

 ancient bronze drums, ancient and modern examples of carving, 

 baskets and richly-embroidered garments and cloths. Only 

 sixteen bronze drums of this character are known to be in 

 existence. 



The Andrew Ellicott Douglas collection of celts and other 

 Indian implements is being installed in the Tower Room at the 

 extreme southwest corner of the main floor. 



The Section of Archaeology has received an exchange from 

 the Buft'alo Society of Natural History, consisting of a repre- 

 sentative collection from a village site in the southern part of 

 Bufi'alo. This site was inhabited in historic times by the Seneca 

 Indians, at whose head was the famous chief, Red Jacket. In 

 prehistoric times the same site was occupied by the Kah-Kwahs, 

 another division of the Iroquois people, who spoke a related lan- 

 guage and had kindred customs. In the early days this site was 

 neutral ground, because it was near the quarry of chert, the ma- 

 terial which all tribes alike needed for making arrow-points. 

 When the Senecas, however, secured guns and no longer used 

 chert-pointed arrows, they captured the site from the Kah- 

 Kwahs, an event which took place early in the seventeenth 

 century. The present collection was made by Mr. Frederick 

 Houghton, principal of one of the Bufi'alo schools, and is very 

 complete. The implements represent both the Seneca occupation 

 and that of the prehistoric Kah-Kwahs, and are accompanied 

 by full information regarding the circumstances of their finding 

 and their probable use. The collection is on exhibition in Hall 

 No. 208, on the main floor of the building. 



The Anthropological Department has also received, as a gift 

 from the Peabody Museum of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of 

 the Mexican codices which have been prepared through the 

 liberality and under the editorship of Mrs. Zelia Nuttall. 



