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Acquisitions. No extended field work has been done during the 

 period ending with the fiscal year, the time being employed in cura- 

 torial work, in research and in other important museum activities. 

 About iooo specimens, however, have been acquired, the result of 

 donations, collection in the field and purchases. 



The more important collections are those of J. P. Van Heusen 

 of Glens Falls, Forest V. L. Ryder of North Troy, who collected 

 near Coxsackie (both of which were purchased), Alvin H. Dewey, 

 representative collection from vicinity of Rochester, R. T. Webster, 

 from vicinity of Ironde quoit bay, D. D. Luther, from vicinity of 

 Canandaigua lake, John Gillard of Stafford; all of which were 

 donated. 



Two important manuscripts were purchased during the year. 

 One is the result of ten years' field study of the Genesee valley and 

 comes under the title, Aboriginal Sites in the Genesee Valley, 

 including four adjacent counties, by Harrison C. Follett; the other, 

 Rock Shelters in Southeastern New York, by Max Schrabisch. 

 Both of these manuscripts are of considerable importance in the 

 preparation of " The Archeological History of New York," a volume 

 upon the preparation of which we are spending much care. 



An Iroquois bark lodge. During July and August 19 17, there was 

 erected in the east end of the Hall of Ethnology an Iroquois bark 

 lodge. The bark and poles were secured for us by Indian friends 

 who were glad to cooperate in this attempt at reconstruction, and 

 the bark was placed upon the frame by Chief Lyman Johnson, 

 Gyantwaka, of the Tonawanda Senecas. The lodge is 18 feet long, 

 16 feet wide and 14 feet high. So far as possible the architectural 

 plan was made to conform to the data concerning bark house struc- 

 ture that we were able to find. 



The lodge contains a central hallway and, on either side, platform 

 benches running the length of the structure. Above is another 

 platform serving for storage or sleeping quarters. The lodge is 

 furnished with mats, pelts, cooking and eating utensils, gaming 

 sticks, ceremonial objects and other appropriate articles. In the 

 center, beneath the roof opening that served as a smoke yent, is an 

 artificial fire with the remnants of a feast strewn about it. In the 

 foreground is the ever present wooden mortar and pestle. A braid 

 of white Indian corn hangs overhead. 



So far as we have been able to reproduce the cabin, both as to 

 exterior, interior and furnishings, we have endeavored to make a 

 faithful duplication of an Iroquois dwelling house of the individual 

 type. 



