82 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914, 
National Museum has the largest in existence, and the manuscript is 
expected to be ready for the press within a year. His bulletin on the 
“ Culture of the Ancient Pueblos of the Upper Gila River Region, 
New Mexico and Arizona,” was completed and published. 
American archeology. Among the more important of the 49 ac- 
cessions received by this division were the following: Mr. Chester W. 
Washburne, collecting for the Smithsonian Institution, mainly in 
old Indian camp sites and caves in the valleys of the Rio Negro and 
Santa Cruz in Patagonia, South America, transmitted several hun- 
dred specimens, including a roughly shaped mortar and pestle, a 
disk-shaped rubbing stone, leaf-shaped blades, various chipped im- 
plements of usual types and fragments of pottery vessels. An inter- 
esting collection of flint implements, grooved axes, celts, leaf-shaped 
blades, projectile points, and other stone objects from Jackson 
County, Mo., was received as a gift from Mr. J. G. Braecklein, of 
Kansas City; and a series of antiquities from Porto Rico, both 
originals and casts, was obtained in exchange from Mr. George G. 
Heye, of New York. Mr. Neil M. Judd, of the Museum staff, during 
an investigation in Guatemala, secured a number of interesting 
objects, including ancient pottery vessels, examples of earthenware 
made in modern Guatemalan potteries and sold as antiquities, stone 
implements, a modern ceremonial mask attributed to the Maya 
Indians of Chiapas, a large woolen blanket woven by Quiché In- 
dians, and two small wooden carvings, one of a friar, the other of 
a cavalier, and both doubtless pertaining to the early Spanish occu- 
pation of the country. A choice collection purchased of Mr. D. I. 
Bushnell, jr., of Charlottesville, Va., comprises large chipped flint 
blades from Missouri and Illinois, showing the polish of long-con- 
tinued use in cultivating the soil; chipped celts and chisels with 
ground cutting edges, from the same States and Tennessee; hematite 
implements from Missouri, and other exceptionally fine specimens. 
From Mrs. William Elroy Curtis, of Washington, a large series of 
archeological objects was received as a loan. It includes clay spindle 
whorls from the Valley of Mexico, a carved stone metate and muller 
from Costa Rica, a string of beads made of rock crystal from Colom- 
bia, and earthenware bottles, jars, cooking pots, bowls, figurines and 
prayer sticks, wooden spindle whorls, a carved stone Mama, hairpins 
of copper and silver, and other objects from Peru. 
With the receipt of the additional cases required it was possible 
to carry well toward completion the further work of selecting, ar- 
ranging, and labeling the exhibition collections of the division, 
which, as a presentation of the archeology of northern America, 
stands unquestionably first in the world. Much attention was given to 
the reserve collections, and for the first time the large accumulation 
