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two adjacent ranges, had nearly all been fitted up and opened to 

 the public by the close of the year. The arrangement was, however, 

 in great part only provisional, but its revision looking to a perma- 

 nent installation had been commenced, as described elsewhere. 



The curator of the division, Dr. Walter Hough, prepared an illus- 

 trated catalogue of the Abyssinian collection lent by Mr. Hoffman 

 Philip and completed a paper on American censers and incense. He 

 also continued investigations on the collection of the Museum-Gates 

 expedition of 1905, on East Indian and Philippine weapons, on 

 apparatus connected with heating and illumination, and on Pueblo 

 Indian material. He was called upon to revise a manuscript " Dic- 

 tionary of the Immigrant Races of Man," prepared for the Com- 

 mittee on Immigration of the United States Senate; to aid in the 

 reprinting of the bulletin of the Pan American Union on Mexico, 

 and to instruct recently appointed consuls in anthropological subjects. 



Prehistoric archeology. — Of first importance, probably, among the 

 accessions received by this division were the collections made by 

 Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, and in part by Mr. Bailey Willis, in Argentina, 

 and by the former in Peru and Mexico. The expedition on which 

 they were obtained, conducted under the auspices of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, was undertaken for the purpose of determining, 

 as far as possible, the exact nature and value of the evidence relating 

 to man's antiquity in South America, and is referred to in greater 

 detail in connection with the division of physical anthropology. 

 The archeological collection from Argentina, numbering 1,533 ob- 

 jects, contains hammerstones, pitted anvil stones, mortars, pestles, 

 mullers, axes, projectile points, drills, and other implements, all of 

 exceptional interest as bearing upon the much-discussed question of 

 the age of man on the South American Continent. The Peruvian 

 material includes earthenware vessels, images and musical instru- 

 ments of varied and in part of novel forms, implements of wood, 

 implements and ornaments of copper, mummy wrappings, and other 

 textile articles obtained along with skeletal remains from burial 

 places in the Chicama Valley. The Mexican material comprises 

 stone implements, earthenware, and miscellaneous sculptures. A sec- 

 ond Peruvian collection, received as a gift from Mr. Otto Holstein, 

 of Lima, consists of 82 objects from Inca and pre-Inca graves and 

 dwelling sites near Chosica, and covers a wide range of ancient 

 handiwork. 



During excavations made at sites in the Navaho National Monu- 

 ment and at the ancient Hopi pueblo of Wukoki at Black Falls, Little 

 Colorado River, Arizona, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, obtained an important series of 595 specimens, 

 including earthenware ollas, bowls, cups, ladles, jars and pots, basket- 

 work trays and sandals, cords of yucca fiber, pot rests of corn husks 



