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pie of our insular possessions. During the past year Dr. K. 13. Grubb, 

 U. S. Army, added to his collection 53 specimens from the Moros of 

 western Mindanao, Philippine Islands, consisting of edged weapons, 

 spears, armor, ceremonial objects, matting and costumes of these 

 interesting and warlike people. 



EXPLORATIONS. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, con- 

 tinued his researches in the West Indies, visiting Cuba, Porto Rico, 

 and other islands as far south as Trinidad. His collection contains 

 many notable objects in carved stone, as zemes, or tripointed idols, 

 masks, amulets, pottery of rare forms, and implements and utensils of 

 hard, finely-polished rock. 



Field work in New Mexico and Arizona was carried on by Dr. 

 Walter Hough, assistant curator of the division of ethnology, who 

 succeeded in obtaining a valuable collection of basketry, pottery, stone, 

 bone, wood, and shell implements, weapons, ornaments, and ceremonial 

 objects from a region heretofore unexplored. Ruins near Magdalena, 

 Datil, along the upper Tulerosa River at Frisco, and near Luna, 

 New Mexico, were examined. The last named were excavated and 

 important data and specimens were collected. A reconnoissance of 

 cave and cliff ruins in this region was made and a number of specimens 

 secured. At the close of the work Doctor Hough proceeded north- 

 westward by way of Alpine, Nutrioso, Springerville, and St. Johns, to 

 the Santa Fe Railroad at Holbrook, Arizona. During his trip he trav- 

 ersed a stretch of country 270 miles wide between points on the rail- 

 roads. The object of Doctor Hough was to cut across lines of north 

 and south migration of peoples in early times, and in this respect much 

 valuable information was gathered. 



In May, Mr. George C. Maynard commenced a special investigation 

 of the history of the locomotive " Stourbridge Lion," with a view to 

 clearing up some unsettled questions relating to the authenticity of 

 parts of the locomotive in the custody of the Museum, as well as to 

 determine the whereabouts of other parts now in the possession of 

 private parties. He visited Honesdale, Carbondale, Pittston, Scran- 

 ton and other places in Pennsylvania, where he obtained much valuable 

 information. 



Mr. Paul E. Beckwith, assistant curator in the division of histoiy, 

 acting under special directions from the Assistant Secretary, spent the 

 month of June at the Louisiana Purchase F .position examining 

 certain anthropological collections. 



CARE OF THE COLLECTIONS. 



No changes have been made in the method of handling accessions. 

 All collections received during the year have been catalogued and 



