20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1910. 
McGuire’s researches in the vicinity of Mount Kineo, Maine, resulted 
in a valuable collection of stone implements and rejectage of imple- 
ment-making, which Mr. McGuire presented to the Museum through 
the Bureau of American Ethnology. 
Mistoric archeology.—Among the collections received and assigned 
to this division were the following: Egyptian bronze figurines of 
Osiris, Isis, and Horus, ushabti figurines of faience, pottery vases, 
pieces of mummy cartonage and a box of wheat grains, lent by Mr. 
A. H. Blackiston, of Cumberland, Maryland; and 30 specimens of 
Turkestan pottery of the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, obtained 
by exchange from the Musée d’Anthropologie et d’Ethnographie de 
Pierre le Grand, St. Petersburg, Russia. Of objects of religious art 
and ceremonial were models of the Salt Lake Mormon Temple and 
Tabernacle, presented to the Museum by the Church of Latter Day 
Saints of Jesus Christ, through its treasurer and commissioner at the 
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Mr. George D. Pyper; a model in 
wood of the Russian Church at Sitka, made under the supervision of 
the Rey. A. P. Kashevaroff, and a model of the Santa Barbara Mis- 
sion, California, constructed under the supervision of the head curator, 
both for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and transferred to the 
Museum by the United States Government Board of Managers; a 
model of a Hindu temple, made from the pith of the cork tree, from 
the Rev. William E. DeRiemer; 19 liturgical books used in the 
Russian Church in Alaska, the gift of the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff; 
and a Catholic reliquary and six religious medals, lent by Mrs. G. 
Brown Goode. 
Pending the removal of the collections to the new building, little 
work was done on the exhibition series. A small number of objects, 
not heretofore shown, was installed in the Egyptian section, and some 
labels were prepared and printed. At the close of the year, the 
Egyptian and a large part of the Assyro-Babylonian and Hittite col- 
lections had been transferred, but there still remained in the ‘old 
building the entire series of objects of recent religious art. Studies 
were made of the ancient potteries, with a view to their arrangement 
under the new conditions. 
Physical anthropology.—Of the accessions received by this division, 
which were numerous and of exceptional value, the most important 
was that of the Egyptian remains, which, through the courtesy and 
generosity of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, Dr. Ales 
Hrdlitka, curator of the division, was enabled to make in connection 
with the extensive excavations that are being conducted by that 
Museum. The value of this collection is greatly enhanced by the fact 
that every specimen is well identified chronologically. Other note- 
worthy accessions were about 100 Indian skulls, with other bones, 
from Newport, Madison, and Marked Tree, Arkansas, obtained and 
