22 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912. 



Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of America at Santa Fe, 

 in the summer of 1911, and received by transfer from the former. An 

 important loan from Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, of the City of Mexico, con- 

 sisted of a large series of terra cotta spindle whorls, gathered during 

 a nine years' residence in Mexico, chiefly from Texcoco and Cholula, 

 the centers of the pottery industry in the Valley of Mexico, and said 

 to be the work of women potters. The collection is unequaled in its 

 illustration of this very artistic and interesting branch of ancient 

 Mexican handiwork. Several Toltec clay ornaments, vessels, molds, 

 and miniature human heads, from San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico, 

 were presented by Senor Don Leopoldo Batres, of the Cit}^ of Mexico; 

 and a number of projectile points and other articles made experi- 

 mentally of flint and glass, together with the bone and stone tools 

 by means of which they were fashioned, were received as a gift from 

 Mr. Arthur W. Cline, of Philadelphia. 



The work of the division was mainly in continuance of the sorting, 

 classification, arrangement, and labeling of the collections in their 

 new quarters, and the installation of the exhibition series, which was 

 well advanced at the close of the year. With the progress of this 

 work the head curator of the department of anthropology, Mr. Wil- 

 liam H. Hohnes, carried forward his descriptive and illustrative 

 work for embodiment in the handbook of archeology which has been 

 in course of preparation for some years. The opportunity for com- 

 parison and study was exceptional and the entire body of the collec- 

 tions for the first time passed fully under scientific scrutiny. Ke- 

 searches were also carried on in the division by a number of students, 

 among whom were Mr. H. J, Browne, of Washington, who is pre- 

 paring a paper on the stone- collars of Porto Eico; Prof. W. Rehlen, 

 of Nuremberg, Germany, who is- investigating the relation of Ameri- 

 can stone implements to the Paleolithic implements of Europe; and 

 Mr. Charles C. Moore, of Lyman, England, who is making similar 

 comparisons, with reference to the stone implements of Great Britain. 



Historic archeology. — The carving of the column capitals for the 

 portico of the new Museum building was based on a plaster copy, 

 made from molds in the Louvre at Paris, of one of the capitals 

 of the Temple of Jupiter Stator, presumably the same as the Temple 

 of Castor, in the Forum at Rome, Italy, which was erected in 496 

 B. C. and rebuilt at the beginning of the second century of tlie 

 present era. This replica of what is regarded as the most beautiful 

 known example of a Roman Corinthian capital came into the pos- 

 session of the Museum during tlie year as a gift from the architects 

 of the building, Messrs. Hornblower and Marshall. To Mrs. Julian 

 James, of Washington, the division is indebted for a number of in- 

 teresting objects, generously presented, including two Grteco-Italian 



