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eludes the symbolic designs of happiness, long life, good fortune, etc., 

 as elements of the wonderful geometric patterns forming the ground- 

 work. Some of the dresses are for summer, and are worked with 

 silver and gold threads in an open fabric. 



The Government of Burma, through the lieutenant governor, sent 

 to the Museum a set of 38 gramophone records of the different dia- 

 lects spoken in that country, prepared in order to preserve informa- 

 tion as to the language. The set is one of a few made to be given 

 to the principal countries. This anthropological work is much to be 

 commended. 



From the National Museum at Kio de Janeiro, Brazil, was re- 

 ceived, as an exchange, a collection numbering 35 specimens of arms, 

 costume, ornaments, a hafted stone ax, etc., from the Nambikuara 

 Indians of the Matto Grosso, a tribe only recently investigated by 

 Brazilian scientists. This acceptable collection was brought to the 

 United States by Miss Bertha Lutz, secretary of the National Mu- 

 seum of Brazil. 



A collection of bows, arrows, bark-cloth costumes, jewelry, boat 

 models, weaving tools, and other objects from the Rio Beni tribes in 

 Bolivia, called Gorai, Mositana, Yuricari, and others, was received 

 as a gift from the Mulford Biological Exploration of the Amazon 

 Basin. These specimens are new to the Museum. 



Through the courtesy of Arthur R. Fergusson, the curator of 

 ethnology was permitted to make a selection from the large collec- 

 tion of his father, Arthur W. Fergusson, former secretary of the 

 Philippine Commission. The material consists of unusual bolos and 

 kampilans from Cebu and Samar, bident obsidian spears and breast- 

 plate of boar's tusks from Bismarck Archipelago and New Guinea, 

 respectively. This collection is a gift. 



The division of American archeology made gratifying progress in 

 bringing its vast collection into a comprehensive unity by a system 

 of indexes which will allow the location of any object to be known 

 in a very short time. Of especial attractiveness and scientific in- 

 terest is a collection of 500 decorated pottery, stone implements, and 

 beads from ancient habitations in the Casas Grandes district, Mexico, 

 lent by the Archaelogical Society of Washington. No group of 

 ancient ceramics in the Museum shows such bright colors, striking 

 designs, and fine finish as this collection. 



Other noteworthy accessions were a green jade club from New 

 Zealand, received in exchange from L. C. G. Clarke; 352 specimens 

 from Florida, consisting principally of finely worked shell and coral 

 rock, collected by Charles T. Earle and transferred to the National 

 Museum by the Bureau of American Ethnology ; an engraved mono- 

 lithic stone ax from Georgia, by purchase; an unusually fine banner 



