48 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
America, was well advanced toward completion. A series of general 
displays, such as native mines and quarries, Indian stoneworking 
methods and products, Euroamerican trade items from Indian sites, 
native smoking devices, and the diffusion of tobacco are planned for 
topical purposes. 
The Third Biennial Creative Crafts Exhibition was shown from 
August 27 to September 26, 1958, in the foyer of the Natural History 
Building. This was organized and installed by local craft organiza- 
tions and sponsored by the division of ceramics and glass. Con- 
temporary examples of ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and woodworking 
were displayed, and daily demonstrations of pottery making, weaving, 
and other craftwork conducted. 
A ceremony of acceptance was held on the afternoon of Decem- 
ber 11, 1958, to open the E. Stanley Wires collection of decorative 
tiles in the specially reconditioned room in the foyer of the National 
History Building. New acquisitions of glass from Mrs. Clara W. 
Berwick and of Castleford porcelain from Mrs. George Hewitt Myers 
were also put on exhibition, and two appropriate cases were built 
to house a collection of paperweights lent by Mrs. Florence Bushee. 
Historic Dutch and Rhenish pottery and stoneware now displayed 
in a large alcove at the west end of the Cultural History Hall in 
the Natural History Building were formally accepted by Secretary 
Leonard Carmichael as a gift from the Honorable Wiley T. Buchanan, 
Jr., Chief of Protocol of the United States, and Mrs. Buchanan 
on the afternoon of January 5, 1959. AJ] these examples of ceramics 
were excavated at sites in the Netherlands and assembled by P. 
Weers of Vooburg. The exhibit illustrates household ceramics from 
the Roman and Merovingian periods to the beginning of the 19th 
century, and provides a basis for an understanding of the materials 
exported to America during the period of early settlement as well 
as its influence on the workmanship of American potters of the 17th 
century. 
The renovated textile exhibit located in the main south hall of 
the Arts and Industries Building was formally opened to the public 
on the evening of January 20, 1959, by A. E. Wullschleger and Sec- 
retary Carmichael. In this hall the exhibits trace the history of 
the fibers and fabrics used by man in the context of the implements 
and machines that produced them, with the emphasis placed on the 
technological developments from colonia] times through the ensuing 
years. The Eli Whitney cotton gin and the Samuel Slater cotton 
machinery from the Pawtucket Mill of 1790, both unique examples 
of the work of these skilled mechanics, are supplemented by many 
other historic devices. Among these are a well-preserved Jacquard 
loom from Lyons, France, presented by Mr. Wullschleger, of New 
