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and cedar bark, sacred cigarettes or closed blowers (sections of corn 

 stalks and reeds) , bags of woven cord containing bundles of feathers, 

 two wooden implements, a stone hatchet, fragments of woven fabrics, 

 pointed sticks of wood, a " feather box," fire sticks, spindle whorls, 

 bone awls, shell beads and pendants, stone axes, hammers, mauls, and 

 disks. A collection of implements and other objects, numbering 131 

 specimens, from the ruined pueblo of Gyusiwa, New Mexico, was 

 secured through exchange with the School of American Archaeology 

 of the Archaeological Institute of America, at Santa Fe. It contains 

 pottery vessels and potsherds showing a great variety of painted geo- 

 metric and symbolic decorations, stone implements, bone scrapers, 

 chisels, awls, beads, shell ornaments, fragments of tubular pottery pipes, 

 and three ancient war clubs of wood. In the same exchange were also 

 118 specimens from an ancient pueblo near Rito de los Frijoles, New 

 Mexico, consisting of stone metates, mortars, hand-stones, grooved 

 hammers and axes, rubbing hammerstones, roughly chipped pointed 

 implements, arrowshaft straighteners, and discoidal stones. A collec- 

 tion of approximately 810 archeological specimens, mainly from Gene- 

 see County, Michigan, comprising all the objects which had been de- 

 posited by Mr. Byron E. Dodge since 1891, was purchased. The 

 series includes polished stone implements, chipped blades, projectile 

 points, scrapers, drills, tablets, pipes, and objects of copper, and 

 among them are many fine examples, notably a stone hatchet with the 

 original handle, some curious forms of stone axes and hatchets, stone 

 clubs resembling northwest coast specimens, and a number of good 

 bannerstones and amulets. 



Also worthy of mention are 97 photographs of gold and terra- 

 cotta images, ornaments, utensils, etc., from Colombia, South America, 

 presented by Capt. H. R. Lemly, United States Army (retired), of 

 Washington; a collection of relics of wide range from Mexico, lent 

 by Mr. A. H. Blackiston, of Cumberland, Maryland ; objects of primi- 

 tive manufacture from British East Africa, collected by the Smith- 

 sonian African Expedition, and a model of an elaborate stone portal 

 from an ancient building at Labna, Yucatan, contributed by the 

 American Antiquarian Society, of Worcester, Massachusetts. 



During the year much attention was given to the sorting and 

 assembling of collections preparatory to exhibition and storage; and 

 the repair, restoration, and coloring of the great series of casts of 

 Mexican, Central and South American antiquities was carried well 

 toward completion. The work of public installation was in large 

 measure provisional, since it was necessary to utilize the old cases 

 until the new were received. Twelve of the new American cases 

 were used for material from Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Cali- 

 fornia, Ohio, and other States and Territories; and in new wall 

 cases collections from Argentina, Peru, Chiriqui, Costa Rica, Nica- 



