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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Mr. M. Kayser, of Santa Fe, has contributed from the same tribe a 

 blanket made of the wool of the native sheep. From the Wachita bat- 

 tle ground, in the Indian Territory, Dr. Lippincott, United States Army, 

 has obtained for us a lot of bows, cases, quivers, iron arrow-heads, 

 metal tubes for nose ornaments, and finger rings of German silver. 

 These all belonged to the tribes engaged in the conflict, namely, the Co- 

 manches, Arapahoes, Wachitas, and Kiowas. 



From Arizona, the principal contributions in former years were by 

 Dr. E. Palmer, acting as medical officer at the Indian agency. The ar- 

 ticles presented last year, by the same explorer, were such as relate 

 mostly to the domestic occupations of the Apaches — a pouch with bul- 

 lets, bone for dressing skins, awls for sewing, resin for finishing bows 

 and arrows, paint bag, with black and red pigments, the former 

 color being derived from the inspissated juice of the mescal plant, 

 and curious necklace, woven of strips of the inner bark, complete 

 the collection. From Dr. John C. McFerran, United States Army, have 

 been received a battle-ax 5 and from Dr. E. Coues several Apache ar- 

 row-heads. From the western part of the Territory Mr. Manning F. Force 

 has sent a (syenite or porphyry) stone axe of symmetrical shape and 

 beautifully x^olished. Mr. Henry 0. Force, from the Gila Eiver, has 

 presented fragments of pottery and shell ornaments, and, from the Mo- 

 qui Indians, a small, red, earthenware vase. Mr. H. C. Fernald has 

 given a small stone axe, obtained near the same locality. 



From Wisconsin, Dr. E. P. Hoy, of Eacine, well known for his re- 

 searches in aboriginal ethnology, has presented an ancient earthenware 

 vase, nearly entire, having a conical or sugar-loaf bottom, with frag- 

 ments of another vessel. Dr. Moses Barratt, of Waukesha, has sent 

 numerous stone relics, axes, chisels, arrow-heads, and a stone disk ; also 

 an arrow straightener, consisting of two flat pieces of sandstone with 

 semi-cylindrical grooves, through which the shaft is drawn when the 

 stones are fitted together. He has also sent fragments, apparently of 

 brick, which formed part of a wall so ancient as to be attributed to 

 Aztec workmanship. 



In Illinois, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, energetically engaged 

 in promoting research in aboriginal remains, has had made electrotype 

 copies of a fine specimen of copper knife, one of which has been pre- 

 sented, through Mr. H. Shimer, to this Institution ; also a similar cast of 

 a copper chisel, and a cast in plaster of a remarkable terra-cotta image. 

 From Mount Carmel, Illinois, Mr. Eobert Eidgway has presented two 

 fine stone axes, several spear and arrow heads; and from the same place 

 Mr. Granville Turner has sent a hoe of jasper, three spear-heads of chert, 

 and a lot of arrow-heads ; also from the same State, Dr. Hall has pre- 

 sented a stone axe, a chisel, and a number of arrow-heads ; and J. E. 

 Kendrick, of Des Moines, has contributed a series of specimens of 

 pottery. 



From Indiana, Dr. E. M. White, United States Army, has presented 



