18 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



Japan, New Zealand, Brazil, and Ceylon. Besides these the most 

 noteworthy acquisitions in ethnology consisted of collections pre- 

 sented by Dr. W. L. Abbott and Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. Army. 

 Both of these gentlemen, whose names have been so often mentioned 

 as benefactors, have a thorough appreciation of the true purpose of 

 scientific field-work, and whatever is received from them can be relied 

 upon to meet in all respects the requirements of research. Doctor 

 Abbott's collection consisted of 755 objects from the islands off the 

 southeastern coast of Sumatra and from the Mergui Archipelago of 

 Lower Burma, selected as far as possible to represent complete 

 ethnographic scries of each of the peoples visited. The collection of 

 Doctor Mearns comprised 134 objects from the Moros of Mindanao, 

 where he had been stationed as chief surgeon with the army under 

 Gen. Leonard Wood. Through the kind offices of Baron P. Paum- 

 gartten, chancellor of the Austro-Hungarian embassy in Washington, 

 exchanges were arranged with Baron Ludwig Ambrozy of Vienna, 

 from whom five complete peasant costumes of the Wallachians, of 

 South Hungary, were received during the year. 



The more important American collections in ethnology were the 

 result of three Government investigations, one by the National 

 Museum and two by the Bureau of American Ethnology. During 

 his excavations in western Socorro County, New Mexico, in the 

 summer of 1 , .)()4, Dr. Walter Hough, assistant curator of ethnology, 

 secured 863 specimens consisting of ancient sacrificial objects, stone, 

 bone, and shell implements ami carvings, pottery, basketry, bows, 

 arrows, etc., from pueblos, cliff houses, and caves of a region inhabited 

 by prehistoric people of Pueblo stocks. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, assistant 

 curator of physical anthropology, while on an expedition to Southern 

 Arizona for the Bureau of American Ethnology, gathered several 

 hundred specimens in ethnobotany, basketry, stone implements, 

 pottery, etc., from among the San Carlos Apaches, the Mescalero 

 Apaches, and the Pimas. The second collection from the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, consisting of over 500 specimens, was the result of recent 

 investigations at the pueblo of Zuni by Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson. 

 ft is rich in ceremonial objects, such as fetishes and paraphernalia of 

 a character most difficult to obtain; ethnobotanical specimens, 

 pigments, ceramics, agricultural implements, etc. Also interesting 

 to note are a complete set of horse trappings of the South American 

 Gauchos and a number of Philippine objects from the President of 

 the United States; and an ancient basket shield and feather fur 

 garment, from the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, transmitted by the 

 U. S. Department of the Interior. 



The division of physical anthropology received a large amount of 

 material relating to the natural history of several races of man, 

 especially the American Indians, Negroes, Slavs, and Filipinos. For 



