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Indian baskets, bequeathed by Mrs. Mary Manning Fletcher; 19 
Navaho blankets and 3 models of blanket frames assembled by the 
late Dr. Washington Matthews, United States Army, and used by 
him in the preparation of his work on Navaho weavers, published in 
the Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
besides a number of miscellaneous objects, received as a loan from 
Mrs. Matthews; many Mexican relics, consisting of ivory carvings, 
crucifixes of wood, ivory and metal, and photographs of historical 
subjects, lent by Maj. Harry S. Bryan, of Mexico City; and a col- 
lection of various kinds of objects pertaining to the Spokane, Col- 
ville, Okinagan, and Columbia Indians, lent by Mr. Clair Hunt, of 
Colville, Wash. The division is indebted to Capt. J. R. Harris, 
United States Army, for a gift of bows, arrows, swords, an alphabet 
tablet, snares, boxes, etc., from the Moros of Mindanao; and to the 
Museum fiir Volkerkunde, Leipzig, Germany, for a collection of 
material from southeastern Africa, analogous to articles illustrated 
in the important works of Prof. L. Frobenius, obtained in exchange. 
The exhibition series received many additions and improvements. 
The Hopi family group was completed and installed. The 
Tehuelche family group, the Zuni potter, the Navaho silversmith, the 
Navaho weaver, the Maya-Quiché and Apache subfamily groups, 
and several single figures were transferred to the new cases specially 
built for them, this work involving a considerable amount of repaint- 
ing of figures and readjustment of groundwork. The Igorot group 
and Kiowa children group were taken down preparatory to extensive 
changes necessary to place them in a more satisfactory condition. 
The synoptic series, illustrating the development of the several types 
of artifacts, which had been in storage for a number of years, was 
installed in 13 Cases, interspersed among the lay-figure group cases in 
the east and west halls. Progress was also made in other directions, 
improvements being carried out in installation, exhibits reassembled 
more effectively and in more accurate geographical relations, and 
many specimens repaired. Much time was also given to the prepa- 
ration of case and individual labels, many hand-written ones being 
used pending their printing. 
Plans were made for and work actively begun on an ethnological 
exhibition for the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco, 
figures for two large family groups having been completed, and ma- 
terials for four floor cases selected. The exhibit will cover a space 
of approximately 6,000 square feet. The curator also undertook for 
the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego the supervision of 
the preparation of models of 10 village groups, illustrating the abo- 
riginal architecture of North and South America. Five of these 
groups were finished. 
The curator, Dr. Walter Hough, continued the preparation of a 
catalogue of the Hopi-Pueblo Indian collection, of which the 
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