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The following persons have loaned specimens to the Museum: Mr. D. Wesley 

 Garber, fish net, sinker and 29 stone adz heads from Samoa; Dr. George Herbert, 

 helmet, 2 spears, 2 wooden bowls and a phallic stone from Hawaii ; Mr. Frank 

 Marciel, Hawaiian adz head and polishing stone ; Mr. N. G. Smith, kukui lei, brooch 

 and earrings : Mr. William Wagener, Hawaiian stone image. 



Ethnological material purchased during 1922 includes the valuable collection of 

 Mrs. Victoria Buffandeau which embraces 8 feather leis, 10 kapas, 19 wooden bowls, 

 2 cuspidors, finger bowl, pig platter, tobacco pipe, 3 ivory leis, 2 makaloa mats, 

 poi pounder, net for suspending calabash (all Hawaiian), 2 Samoan mats, 12 co- 

 conut bowls, a poi pounder and a gourd bowl from Tahiti; from E. Block, 11 war 

 clubs from Samoa and Fiji, sword from Caroline Islands, 3 dishes and a bowl 

 from Fiji, mat dress from Samoa, 3 tapa beaters of which one is triangular in 

 section (locality unknown) and a piece of bark cloth from Uganda, Africa; from 

 the Emma Dreier Estate, a large wooden Hawaiian plate ; from Mr. Maihui, net for 

 suspending calabash ; from Mr. Nam Ja Sung, collection of Hawaiian stone imple- 

 ments ; from Mrs'. Helen Widemann, 4 Hawaiian calabashes. 



Members of the staff have increased the collections as follows : R. T. Aitken, 

 180 specimens of native implements, tapas, baskets and materials collected in Tu- 

 buai and Raivavae, Austral Islands (see notes on collections) ; John F. G. Stokes, 

 a large number of artifacts collected chiefly in Rurutu, Raivavae and Rapa (re- 

 served for description in the 1923 Report); Kenneth P. Emory, collected on Lanai. 

 T. H., during 1921, 421 specimens among which may be mentioned several pieces of 

 wood from old houses and canoes, tapa anvil and beater, poi pounders, S lamps 

 and a pillow of stone, 19 anchors. 30 sinkers. 8 grindstones, 8 whetstones, 35 bowling 

 stones, 34 adz heads, ^J polishing stones, 4 stones bearing petroglyphs of great age, 

 Zi stone hammers, stone dish, stone for cooking birds, 3 bath rubbing stones and a 

 stone knife. Mr. Emory also collected in 1922 on Molokai a stone hammer, 3 

 bowling stones, 3 sling stones', 2 adzes, a net sinker and a cowry lure. 



Hans G. Hornbostel has had remarkable success in obtaining valuable specimens 

 illustrating the material culture of the Chamorros. The material already received 

 from Guam includes hundreds of sling stones, large numbers of adzes and chisels, 

 hammers, pestles, whetstones, several stone vessels', knives, ornaments, fishing 

 equipment and other artifacts, as well as specimens of the massive stone capitals 

 from the tops of pillars marking burial sites (see p. 21). An exploring party consist- 

 ing of Herbert E. Gre.gory. Edwin H. Bryan, Jr., of the Museum staff and Herman 

 Von Holt, Ronard K. Von Holt, Lindsay Faye, and Lorrin P. Thurston, volunteer 

 assistants, brought back from the Nepali coast of Kauai s poi poimders, 2 poi 

 boards, 6 cowry lures, 2 sinkers, adz head, stone knife, polishing stone and canoe 

 fragments. C. Montague Cooke and party consisting of C. M. Cooke III, Harrison 

 Cooke and Benjamin Oliveira secured a number of stone and shell implements on 

 the western end of Molokai. 



By exchange the Museum has received from Baron N. Kanda of Japan a col- 

 lection of adzes, arrowheads, pieces of pottery, snow shoes, and 2 stone ornaments 

 (Magatama and Kudatama), illustrating the culture of the ancestors of the present 

 Japanese race, and several adzes and other artifacts from Formosa ; from Mr. E. 

 L. Moseley a series of North American Indian relics. 



Specimens have been added to the ornithological collection by members of the 

 staff as follows : Stanley C. Ball and Charles H. Edmondson, man-o'-war bird 

 (Fregata aquila), booby (Sula cyanof's), nestling and 2 eggs of the latter, 3 terns 

 iProcelsterna cerulea), bristle-thighed curlew {Numeiiius tahitiensis), 3 warblers 

 (Conopoderas pistor), nest of the latter, 11 paroquets (Vini kiihli) collected on 



