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beads, disks, drilled pendants, thin stone slabs for grinding paint, 
grooved sharpening stones, flint blades and arrow points; bone 
implements and ornaments including chisels, scrapers, punches, etc., 
many awls made from bones of deer and wild turkey, and a number 
of cylindrical beads; wooden shafts and planting sticks, ceremonial 
tablets, fire sticks, prayer sticks, and withe handles for stone axes; 
earthenware bowls, ladles, jars, mugs, cups, dishes, etc. Another 
collection of kindred material was secured by Dr. Fewkes for the 
Bureau of American Ethnology from the ruins of the Marsh Pass 
region, Arizona, in 1909. It comprises grooved stone hammers or 
sledges, pitted stones, polishing stones, stone mortar, knives of flint 
and quartzite, and flint arrow points; an earthenware strainer, and 
fragments of coiled ware vessels and of painted and gray ware with 
designs in red and black. A third North American collection, con- 
sisting of ancient Pueblo earthenware, was donated by Mr. Stephen 
Janis, superintendent of the Navaho Indian Reservation, Tuba City, 
Arizona. Noteworthy examples are ollas and bowls of gray ware 
with geometric decorations in black and red; others are embellished 
with volutes and other figures in relief, and one jar is of coiled ware. 
Senator H. C. Lodge presented a Porto Rican stone collar of massive 
type, oval in shape and embellished with sculptured figures. A 
collection of much interest from Honduras and Guatemala, including 
numerous articles of stone, copper, and clay, was lent by Mr. A. H. 
Blackiston, of Cumberland, Maryland. Of special note are copper 
bells of varied pattern, vases elaborately decorated in glyphic designs 
and symbolic devices, and figures of animals and men modeled in 
clay. 
The members of the staff of the division were mainly occupied 
during most of the year in preparations for and in the actual removal 
of the collections from the Smithsonian building to the new building, 
and considerable headway had been made in the work of installation 
in the new quarters by the end of June. The cataloguing and mark- 
ing of recent accessions was kept up in the usual manner. 
During the early part of the year the head curator of the depart- 
ment, Mr. William H. Holmes, was engaged in the study of the stone 
implements of the collection, in continuation of his work on an ex- 
haustive monograph intended for publication by the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, but later his time was entirely taken up with 
matters connected with the removal of collections. Mr. A. V. Kidder, 
of the Peabody Museum of Archeology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
examined the collection of pottery obtained by Dr. Fewkes at the 
“Cliff Palace,” Mesa Verde National Park. Although no field work 
was undertaken by the division, the explorations and excavations 
in the Pueblo region, by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of 
American Ethnology, were important for the Museum; and Mr. J. D. 
