20 KEPOKT OF NATIOiSTAL MUSEUM, 1912. 



to the Museum by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, of New York. It comprises 

 some 600 objects illustrating various activities of the tribes and is. 

 perhaps, more comprehensive than any other single collection that 

 has been received from that region. Among the specimens are wood 

 carvings designed for ceremonial and economic use and examples 

 of the tools with which they were made, stone mauls, mortars, pestles, 

 adzes, fishing and hunting implements, clubs, daggers, armor, carv- 

 ings in slate, wood and horn spoons, boat models, mats, basketry, 

 drums, costumes, and games. A collection of much interest, obtained 

 for the Museum in Panama by Mr. H. Pit tier, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, in the course of botanical explorations, includes basketry, 

 costumes, bows and arrows, a drum, examples of bark cloth, and a 

 shell hammer employed for making such cloth. A noteworthy loan 

 from Mr. Hugh Thomas Carter, of Washington, contains head- 

 dresses, buckskin shirts,- leggings, moccasins, rattles, pipes, basketry, 

 drums, flutes, etc., of the northern Plains Indians, and the full cos- 

 tume of a Greenland woman. 



Parts of costumes, ornaments, pipes, and other articles of the Ute 

 Indians were received as a bequest from Miss Fannie A. Weeks, for 

 many years a teacher in the Indian service. An Oto Indian head- 

 dress, and a flute, dipper, hairbrush, and bald eagle wing from an 

 Oto medicine man's outfit ; a rare old Klamath Indian headdress and 

 hair Avrappings of otter skin; pipes, carved spoons, and a chipped 

 flint knife from the Hupa Indians; and a Persian bow, a Spanish- 

 American tapadero, and tw^o South Sea Island war clubs, were ob- 

 tained in exchange from Mr. E. W. Keyser, of Washington. Twenty- 

 two paper squeezes of inscriptions on El Morro or " Inscription 

 Eock," western New Mexico, being historical records of the visits of. 

 the Spanish conquerors, collected by Mr. F. W. Hodge, were trans- 

 ferred by the Bureau of American Ethnology. Two pieces of rare 

 basketry, a globular open-work vessel of willow, and a flat fan-like 

 tray closely Avoven, from the Shoshoni Indians of Idaho, were pre- 

 sented by Brig. Gen. Timothy E. Wilcox, United States Army (re- 

 tired) ; and models representing a Porto Rican native house and 

 numerous articles of furniture and domestic implements belonging to 

 it were received as a gift from Mrs. John R. Garrison, of Wash- 

 ington. 



The installation of the exhibition collections was actively carried 

 on and provisionally completed to the extent that the furniture re- 

 quired had been received and the work on special preparations had 

 been advanced. Many paintings of Indians from the Catlin collec- 

 tion and other sources were hung, and a large series of transparencies 

 of Indian subjects was placed in the windows of the halls. The totem 

 poles and other carvings and paintings of the northwest coast 

 tribes, with the exception of the Haida house front and its associated 



