18 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
many years has been held in storage in rented quarters was carried 
over in bulk, unpacked and cleaned, sorted and placed in trays or 
otherwise cared for. The exhibition series was in large measure 
removed in trays and boxes, and such cases as were portable were re- 
paired and renovated to again receive the collections in the new halls. 
Satisfactory progress was made in the revising of the card catalogue. 
In the latter part of the winter a portion of the exhibition collec- 
tion was temporarily installed, in connection with the paintings of | 
the National Gallery of Art, in the middle hall of the new building, 
for the opening which occurred on March 17. Several exhibits 
recently received from the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition were 
also utilized for that occasion. At the close of the year there remained 
in the old Museum building the contents of certain wall cases in the 
west hall, and of a large number of the floor and wall cases in the 
north-west and west-north ranges, and in the northwest court and 
gallery. 
The curator, Dr. Walter Hough, continued his investigations on 
the use of incense by the Indian tribes of the Western Hemisphere; 
on the basketry and textile art of the Pueblo tribes; on the distribu- 
tion of gray ware in the Pueblo region; on the relation between the 
Mexican and Pueblo cultures, and on the Museum-Gates collection of 
1905. In response to a suggestion made to the Consular Bureau of 
the Department of State that the Smithsonian Institution and 
National Museum be included in the curriculum of consular educa- 
tion, a class of 25 recently appointed consuls was instructed by 
. Dr. Hough in the subject of anthropology on July 29, 1909. 
' Prehistoric archeology.—The accessions in this division exceeded in 
number those of the previous year and furnished material of excep- 
tional scientific value. Of particular importance was a collection 
from Argentina, forwarded by Dr. Juan B. Ambrosetti on behalf of 
the Museu Ethnografico, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, in 
exchange for North American material. It includes stone mortars 
and pestles, metates and mullers, hammer stones, grooved stone axes, 
hatchets, stone disks, stone beads, flakes of flint and obsidian, bone 
implements and ornaments, shell objects, implements and objects 
of wood, bronze implements and ornaments, and a representative 
series of earthenware vessels including large burial urns, bowls, 
pitchers, jars, dishes, etc., many with painted decorations. The 
collection is especially valuable for purposes of comparison with 
analogous relics of antiquity in North America. 
A noteworthy collection obtained by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the 
Bureau of American Ethnology, under the auspices of the Department 
of the Interior, from the ‘‘Cliff Palace,’”? Mesa Verde National Park, 
Colorado, consists of grooved stone axes (one with the original 
handle), notched axes, hammer and polishing stones, paint stones, 
