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Ethnology. The Museum is still fortunate in being able to 

 acquire occasionally good ethnological material from the Indians of 

 the State and during the year a number of fine specimens have been 

 added to our collections. The sources are already being exhausted 

 by the many who are interested in Iroquois ethnology. As long as 

 the Indians in New York remember the articles characteristic of 

 their native culture, however, it is possible to have specimens made 

 by them to illustrate the old form. This is especially necessary in 

 the case of costumes. 



Council gambling bowl of the Tonawanda Seneca. Collected by A. C. Parker, 191 1 



During the summer the council dice-bowl of the Tonawanda 

 Seneca was secured. It is an ordinary maple gambling bowl such as 

 the Senecas have long used but nevertheless an interesting specimen. 

 It is some ten inches in diameter and four inches deep on the outside 

 though the inside measures three. At present it forms the only 

 specimen in the Museum, all others having been destroyed in the 

 Capitol fire. 



A number of baskets have been added to the collection. Two are 

 of special interest in the matter of weave and decoration. The use 

 of different colored splints for standards has produced a design 

 similar to the Cherokee split cane basket of North Carolina. The 



