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R. D. Potts, consists of 82 specimens of Philippine and western Amer- 

 ican Indian material, chiefly Apache and Pueblo basketry and pot- 

 tery. A similar collection of Philippine Island and western Indian 

 material was presented by the Misses Catherine M. and Isabelle 

 H. Hardie and consists of Moro batik cloth and fringed sashes, and 

 Apache, Zuni, Hopi, Navaho, and Pima basketry and pottery, includ- 

 ing some ancient and valuable Apache basket trays and basketry 

 water containers. 



One of thp valuable accessions of the year was an ethnological 

 collection of 45 pieces from China, collected by F. R. Wulsin and 

 presented by the National Geographic Society. The collection is 

 representative of the decorative art and bodily ornamentation of 

 the Miaotse and Thai people of French Indo-China, and consists of 

 women's silver earrings, collars, neck chains, headdresses and turbans 

 of cotton cloth, girdles, skirts, and leggings. From the Province of 

 Kansu, in northern China, the home of the To-Run tribe, were se- 

 cured women's festival hats, gowns, girdles, brass hair and hat orna- 

 ments, necklaces, earrings, and shoes. Tibetan brass and silver belt 

 ornaments, charm boxes, pipes, prayer wheels, women's costume and 

 hair ornaments make up the remainder of the collection. Water color 

 paintings, 22 in number, portraying rare and unrecorded early 

 Alaskan scenes and events, were presented by Mrs. T. J. Richardson. 

 The region of northern Siberia inhabited by the Chukchi was repre- 

 sented by 17 small ivory carvings fashioned after the Eskimo style 

 of decorative art, loaned by Gen. James M. Ashton. 



Of the 37 accessions received in the division of American archeo- 

 logy during the fiscal year just closed, there are six deserving of 

 special notice. It is to be noted that all of these are transfers 

 from the Bureau of American Ethnology, as the Museum with its 

 own funds has participated in no expenditures that have enriched the 

 collection in this division. In the order of their importance the 

 accessions transferred by the bureau are : A series of 230 implements 

 and ornaments of copper, bone, shell, and stone, collected by Gerard 

 Fowke from mounds near Town Creek, Ala ; a series of 59 specimens 

 including earthenware and shell vessels, shell and stone implements 

 collected by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes on Weeden's Island, near St. 

 Petersburg, Fla. ; a collection of stone implements, shell vessels, and 

 shell and copper ornaments exhumed by Gerard Fowke from mounds 

 near Town Creek, Ala, on the site of Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals; 

 a series of earthenware vessels, bone and shell ornaments, and similar 

 specimens, collected by J. C. Clarke, from Pueblo ruins 15 miles 

 southeast of Flagstaff, Ariz.; a stone bird pipe found near Hyde's 

 Ferry, Tenn. ; and a collection of 303 specimens, mostly stone imple- 

 ments, from unknown localities in Alabama. 

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