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the fact of their publication here, have been recognized as of great 

 national importance by those high in authority. 



COLLECTIONS, 



The additions to the collections, received in 1,450 accessions, aggre- 

 gated approximately 195,845 specimens and articles, classified by 

 subjects as follows: Anthropology, 10,775; zoolog}-, 71,761; botany, 

 79,155; geology and mineralogy, 9,800; paleontology, 23,190; textiles 

 and woods, 933; mineral technology, 213; and National Gallery of 

 Art, 18. Many loans were also accepted for exhibition, chiefly in 

 the Gallery of Art and the division of American history; and 906 

 lots of material, consisting mainly of rocks, ores, minerals, and zoo- 

 logical specimens were received from various parts of the country 

 for examination and report. 



Anthropology. — A varied collection from the island of Celebes, 

 made by Mr. H. C. Raven and presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott, and a 

 large number of objects exhibiting every phase of the textile art as 

 practiced among the Indians of British Guiana, assembled by Dr. 

 Walter Eoth, constituted the most important accessions in ethnology. 

 Pertaining to aborigines of the North American Continent were rare 

 Papago Indian baskets, baskets of interesting w^eaves and designs, 

 carved and painted house posts, etc., from the Quileute Indians of 

 Washington ; articles of ivory, horn, wood, bark, and stone from 

 Eskimo and British Columbian tribes; and many objects pertaining 

 to the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. Other acquisi- 

 tions were from Mexico, Central America, Abyssinia, Japan, China, 

 and the Philippines. 



Especially noteworthy was a large collection of antiquities made 

 by Capts. John W. Wright and Alexander T. Cooper, United States 

 Army, while with General Pershing's expedition in the State of Chi- 

 huahua, Mexico, comprising nearly every variety of artifact of stone 

 belonging to the ancient mound builders of that region. 



Explorations under the Smithsonian Institution resulted in exten- 

 sive archeological collections from the Mesa Verde National Park, 

 Colorado, and from old Zuiii ruins near Gallup, New Mexico, made 

 by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes; from ancient pit villages in New Mexico 

 and ruins at Awatobi, Arizona, made by Dr. Walter Hough; from 

 sites of prehistoric adobe dwellings in western Utah, made by Mr. 

 Neil M. Judd; and from a cave in the southern wall of Cibollita 

 Valley, New Mexico, made by Mr. F. W. Hodge. Dr. W. L. Abbott 

 presented much valuable archeological material obtained during his 

 investigations in Santo Domingo, and among the smaller accessions 

 were many rare specimens from North and Central America. 



