REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS. 
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 
By WALTER HoveH, Acting Head Curator. 
On the appointment of Dr. W. H. Holmes as director of the 
National Gallery of Art on July 1, 1920, the curator of ethnology 
was appointed acting head curator of anthropology. 
A consistent growth is observed in the department year by year. 
Relieved of responsibilities lately connected with divisions of the 
museum not germane to its work, it has moved forward more rapidly. 
The department as now administered comprises the divisions of 
physical anthropology, ethnology, American archeology, and Old 
World archeology, which are closely knit sciences, and the sections 
of musical instruments, ceramics, and art textiles. These branches 
record commendable progress during the period of this report. 
Administration of the division of ethnology and the sections of 
art textiles, musical instruments, and ceramics was continued by the 
acting head curator, also cooperation with the division of history in 
respect to installations and anthropological laboratory preparations 
in the section of period costumes. 
ACCESSIONS DESBRVING SPECIAL NOTICE, 
The accessions generally were of diversified character and tending 
to improve the collections. They were acquired at negligible ex- 
pense. The crowded condition of the museum, necessitating the ac- 
ceptance of desirable collections only by gift or bequest without 
conditions, has limited the accession of loans. The accessions of the 
year, therefore, are mainly a permanent gain to the museum. 
Of exceptional value and interest to the division of ethnology is 
the collection of California Indian baskets from the Missions, a 
supplementary gift from Miss Ella F. Hubby, of Pasadena and New 
York. A blanket robe of dog and mountain goat hair, woven by the 
Cowichan Indians of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, decorated 
with a Chilkat totemic painting in soft colors, is a unique specimen 
gift of Mrs. Charles C. Hyde of Washington, D.C. A single specimen 
of ancient Hawaiian wood carving in form of an image of a god 
can probably not be duplicated. It was collected by Rear Admiral 
J. V. B. Bleecker, United States Navy, many years ago. The image 
is of the Easter Island type. A collection of the very scarce ma- 
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