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Mrs. Gen. J. H. Baxter (Wasliington, D. C): Thirty-seveu si)echiieus of ancient 

 Peruvian pottery collected by William Tryon, and sent to Gen. .T. H. Baxter, 

 Surgeon -General U. S. Army. Tbe.se specimen.s are deposited in tbe Museum with 

 the request that they be labeled and known as the "Tryon collection." (Gift.) 

 (Ace. 24195.) 



Thomas Herkan (Hamburg, Germany): Nine gold ornaments from ancient Indian 

 graves in the province of Antioquia, United States of Colombia. (Purchased.) 

 (AcC. 23661.) 



Cai)t. .ToHN G. BouRKE, Third Cavalry, U. S. Army (Washington, D. C): A collec- 

 tion of 64 specimens of archiPological objects from cliff ruins and pueblos in Ari- 

 zona and New Mexico. (Gift.) (Ace. 24169.) 



Dr. Washington Matthews (Army Medical Museum, Washington. D. C): Five 

 packages of dyed wool of the Navajo sheep, and three packages of dye stuffs 

 used by the Navajo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, and illustrative of his 

 paper on Navajo weaving, American Anthropologist. (Gift.) (Ace. 24191.) 



George B. Frazar (West Medford, Mass.): Collection of 6.5 rude chip])ed imple- 

 ments (Chelleen type), 22 rude knives and points, ir> leaf-shaped implements 

 (more or less broken), 8 arrow points, and 8 chips and flakes. There were also 

 received 25 rude chipped impleuients, and 10 rude knives and points of white 

 ([uartz, 4 hammerstones and a fragment of a polished stone hatchet, from Black- 

 man's farm, Blackman's Point, at the mouth of Cut River, Marshfield, Mass. 

 (Gift.) (Ace. 23756.) 



Dr. F. H. Goodwin (Tucson, Ariz.): A carved stone placqne which was taken from 

 an old Indian grave on the bluff bank of the San Pedro River, in Cochise County, 

 Ariz. (Gift.) (Ace. 24231.) 



Dr. Charles M. Stubbs (W^akefield, Pa.): Nineteen stime "picks" used in the 

 manufacture of potstone vessels ")iy the Shawnee Indians," and 5 fragments of 

 potstone vessels, found near Wakefield, Lancaster County, Pa. (Gift.) (Ace. 

 23752. ) 



R. M. Bartleman (Secretary of legation. United States of America, Caracas, A'^ene- 

 zuela) : A small pottery vase found while excavating for phosphate in what had 

 been a fissure, but now filled to a depth of about 30 feet, on the island of Gran 

 Roque, 60 miles north from the coast of Venezuela. Also a stone implement or 

 ornament from a cave in the Cordilleras of Merida, Venezuela; a small painted 

 stone hatchet and 2 stone chisels ( ?) from Venezuela, exact locality not stated. 

 (Gift.) (Ace. 2.3968.) 



Prof. I. C. Ri'SSELE (U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.) : Two stone mor- 

 tars (ornamented with rude carvings) used for grinding tobacco and also as a 

 lamp; a stone adze, and a rude pointed stone implement of unknown use, from 

 Yukatat, Alaska. (Gift.) (Ace. 23735.) 



Halbert Rust (.Jeft'ersonville, Clarke County, Ind.): A collection from an Indian 

 burial place near Clarkesville, Clarke County, Ind. Human bones more or less 

 broken (parts of skull, leg, arm, feet, hand, and vertebrfe). Iron stone nodule 

 found at the head of the skeleton; a small piece of worked bone found with the 

 feet bones; .ajar containing portions of the material surrounding and overlying 

 the body; subsoil, soil, charcoal, ashes, shells, flint chips, limestone, bones, 

 '• lucky stones," etc. ; a flint hammerstone, a stone sinker, 13 bone awls, bone fish- 

 hook, 6 fragments of worked bone, and 14 fragments of pottery; all from the 

 immediate vicinity of the burial place. (Gift.) (Ace. 24332.) 



George R. Merrill (Grand Rapids, Mich.): A human skull (Indian) with three 

 holes one-fourth inch in diameter, one-half inch apart, drilled in the top. Eacli 

 is countersunk. Found two miles west of the city hall, in Detroit, Mich. Also 

 one perforated and two unperforated skulls, apparently those of squaws. With 

 these skulls were found bones heaped en masse, some of which were wanting, 

 indicating that at some time they had been reburied. (Gift.) 



