DEPARTMENT OF PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 



197 



Polished stone hatchets 8 



Copi)er hatchets 2 



Gongs 7 



Adzes .' 4 



Polished or smooth spearheads or 



knives 2 



Digging implements : 



Oval withont notclies 3 



Ovoid, trnncated, notciuMl, <tc.- ',i 

 Stone daggers: 



Casts \ 



Pigure I 



Stone swords 2 



Perforator 1 



Mortars and pestles : 



Casts 2 



Figures 20 



Pipes 4 



Figures 18 



Discoidal stones 3 



Hammer and pitted stones : 



Figures 3 



Scrapers 2 



P'igures 5 



Perforated club lieads: 



Cast 1 



Figures 4 



Patu-patu or nierai 1 



Rude notched ;i\r. 1 



Figures 2 



Stone objects from auriferous giavels 



of California 2 



Stone pick or axe for making steatite 



vessels 1 



Other objects of special reseaicli diiiiiig the yeiir liave beeu the iStone 

 and Irou man from Sarasota Bay, Florida; sliell- en graving of mammoth 

 or mastodon; stone mortar from glacial drift in Tuscarawas County, 

 Ohio; cache of leaf- slia[)ed imi)lcments from Pennsylvania. 



I'KESKNT SIATK OK IIIK ( OLLKC'TK )N. 



Number of Specimens in the collection, as indicated in the repent lor the 



preceding year 122, 079 



Number of sijecimeus received in the department during the year ending 

 June 30, 1891, and entered in \ol. xxxi, Museum catalogue 



Number of specimens from the Bureau of Ethnology and entered in \o\. 

 XXVIII, Museum catalogue, (not counted) — 182 specimens received March 

 2, 1888, and 1,238 si)ecimens received February 9, 1891 



t, 084 



1,420 



Total 128, 183 



Specimens sent in exciiange 293 



Now on hand 127 890 



Number of last entry in .Tune, 1890 

 Number of last eutrv in June, 1891 



147, 199 

 148, 133 



DISTRIBUTION OF DUPLICATE AKOH^OLOGICAL SPECIMENS. 



The following statement indicates the distribution of archteological 

 specimens by the National Museum during the years 1889-'90 and 189()-'91 . 



To Edward Lovett, West Burton Hbuse, Outram road, (Jroydon, England, 97 archa'- 

 ological specimens. (Sent November 21, 1889.) 



To Prof. Henry H. Giglioli, director of the Zoological Museum, Royal University, 

 Florence, Italy, 12 archaiological specimens. (Sent February 27, 1890. ) 



To Mr. Frederick Shonnard. Yonkers, N. Y., (Ipaleidithic implementK. (Sent March 

 11, 1890.) 



To Mr. Henry Balfour, anthropological department, Oxford Museum, Oxford, Eng- 

 land, 7 archieological specimens. (Sent February 18, 1890.) 



To Dr. Paulo Mantegazza, professor of anthropology, P^lorence, Italy, 55 archieolog- 

 ical specimens, including 9 strings of beads. (Sent March 4, 1890.) 



