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considered a sacred rite by the Osage. Another of these packs was 

 received from the Bureau of American Ethnology, to which it had 

 been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bonnicastle. Thirty-one 

 paintings., illustrating the social and ceremonial life of the Hopi 

 Indians, by Miss Kate T. Cory, of Prescott, Arizona, who has lived 

 with this tribe for several years, were lent by the artist. A small 

 but interesting series of bows, arrows, textiles, garments, and ancient 

 pottery from the Province of Chiriqui, together with a vocabulary 

 of 100 words of the San Bias Indian language, were received as a 

 gift from Mrs. William H. Bell. 



Small lots of material obtained by purchase comprised objects 

 from tribal remnants of the Alibamu Indians and the Seminoles and 

 Shawnees; light buif earthenware pottery with red decorations, a 

 variety new to the Museum, together with the tools used in making 

 it, collected in the vicinity of Tampico, Mexico, by Dr. Edward 

 Palmer; a number of articles of art and ceremony, from the Chip- 

 pewa Indians of Minnesota; and a supplementary collection of 

 games secured by Mr. Stewart Culin, of the Museum of the Brook- 

 lyn Institute, during a recent trip to Japan and China. Loans addi- 

 tional to those above mentioned were as follows: A collection of 

 Japanese brasses, bronzes, porcelains, and lacquers, from Mrs. Oliver 

 Ellsworth Wood ; four panels and a robe of beautiful Chinese tex- 

 tiles of the Ming Dynasty, from Mr. Bailey Willis; three pieces of 

 antique Japanese draperies of couched work, from Miss Mabel 

 McCalmont, of Warren, Pennsylvania; and a choice lot of ethno- 

 logica from southeast Africa, from Mrs. E. L. Beard, of Washing- 

 ton. Mr. Frank Deedmeyer, American consul at Charlottetown, 

 Prince Edward* Island, contributed models of canoes, stone imple- 

 ments, an old Micmac grammar, and other literature in the Micmac 

 language; Dr. F. W. Goding, American consul at Montevideo, 

 Uruguay, presented specimens from New Zealand and South Africa; 

 and the Department of State transmitted a number of photographs 

 and maps from Formosa, obtained by Mr. Samuel C. Reat, Ameri- 

 can consul at Tamsui. 



The reserve collections were mostly moved to the new building 

 during the early part of the year, and subsequently the work of re- 

 arranging them in the metal cases provided in the laboratories, store- 

 rooms, and corridors assigned to the division was steadily carried on. 

 For the first time in many years the facilities now permit of the 

 segregation of all objects of each kind or class. The opportunity 

 was utilized to give such objects as required it a thorough cleaning, 

 and good progress was made in the writing of the card catalogue. 



The exhibition space allotted to the subject of ethnology, com- 

 prising the middle hall on the main floor, except the central part 

 occupied by the paintings of the National Gallery of Art, and the 



