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COLLECTIONS. 



The additions to the collections, received in 1,450 accessions, aggre- 

 gated approximately 195,845 specimens and articles, classified by 

 subjects as follows: Anthropology, 10,775; zoology, 71,761; botany, 

 79,155; geolog}^ and mineralogy, 9,800; paleontology, 23,190; textiles 

 and woods, 933; mineral technology, 213; and National Gallery of 

 Art, 18. Many loans were also accepted for exhibition, chiefly in 

 the Gallery of Art and the division of American history; and 906 

 lots of material, consisting mainly of rocks, ores, minerals, and zoo- 

 logical specimens were received from various parts of the country 

 for examination and report. 



Anthropology '. — A varied collection from the island of Celebes, 

 made by Mr. H. C. Raven and presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott, and a 

 large number of objects exhibiting every phase of the textile art as 

 practiced among the Indians of British Guiana, assembled by Dr. 

 Walter Roth, constituted the most important accessions in ethnology. 

 Pertaining to aborigines of the North American Continent were rare 

 Papago Indian baskets, baskets of interesting weaves and designs, 

 carved and painted house posts, etc., from the Quileute Indians of 

 Washington; articles of ivory, horn, wood, bark, and stone from 

 Eskimo and British Columbian tribes; and many objects pertaining 

 to the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. Other acquisi- 

 tions were from Mexico, Central America, Abyssinia, Japan, China, 

 and the Philippines. 



Especially noteworthy was a large collection of antiquities made 

 by Capts. John W. Wright and Alexander T. Cooper, United States 

 Army, while with Gen. Pershing's expedition in the State of Chihua- 

 hua, Mexico, comprising nearly every variety of artifact of stone 

 belonging to the ancient mound builders of that region. 



Explorations under the Smithsonian Institution resulted in exten- 

 sive archeological collections from the Mesa Verde National Park, 

 Colo., and from old Zuni ruins near Gallup, N. Mex., made by Dr. 

 J. Walter Fewkes; from ancient pit villages in New Mexico and ruins 

 at Awatobi, Ariz., made by Dr. Walter Hough; from sites of prehis- 

 toric adobe dwellings in western Utah, made by Mr. Neil M. Judd; 

 and from a cave in the southern wall of Cibollita Valley, N. Mex., 

 made by Mr. F. W. Hodge. Dr. W. L. Abbott presented much valu- 

 able archeological material obtained during his investigations in 

 Santo Domingo, and among the smaller accessions were many rare 

 specimens from North and Central America. 



Hadji Ephraim and Mr. Mordecai Benguiat made important ad- 

 ditions to the rich collection of antique Jewish objects lent by 

 them during previous years. Included in a valuable gift from the 

 estate of the late John Chandler Bancroft Davis were necklaces, 



