HI.— REPORT UPON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE 

 I. s. NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR 1884. 



By Charles Rau. Curator, 



IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS. 



John >J. McLean, Cape Mendocino, Humboldt Con nil), California, — Col- 

 lection from Bhell-heaps Dear Cape Mendocino: Stone chips and Hakes, 



rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, rude arrow-heads, shells of 

 different species (all determined), plates of Cryptochiton Stelleri and of 

 Chiton (species undetermined), echinus-shell, and teeth of canine ani- 

 mals. 



R. E. C. steams, United States National Museum. — Collections received 

 at different times during the year: Mortars and pestles from Placer 

 County, California; 9 species of shells from shell heaps at Rocky Point 

 and Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, and from Way Keys (one of the Cedar 

 K<-\ s group of islands), Florida ; 8 casts of a stone pestle (metamorphic 

 sandstone), found on Santa Crnz Island, California; 8 casts of a stone 

 pestle found at an elevation of 1,500 feet, near Point Sal, Santa Barbara 

 County, California, and 7 casts of a serpentine sinker, found on the 

 university grounds at Berkeley, Alameda County, California; flakes, 

 rude and leaf-shaped implements, scrapers, cutters, and arrow-heads, 

 all of obsidian, also pestles, mortars, and fruit-crushers, from Howell 

 .Mountain, Xapa County, California; cast of a carved ceremonial weapon, 

 original found at Saint Helen, Columbia County, Oregon; cast of a 

 stone dish with handle, found deeply imbedded in auriferous gravel 

 near Oregon Bar, North Fork of American River, Placer County, Cali- 

 fornia, and casts of 2 clay images found in Aztec graves, while con- 

 structing water-works at Medelliu, Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



W. W. Evans, Xcir L'ochelle, Westchester County, Xe/c York. — Small 

 collection of stone arrow-heads, bone, copper, and shell fish-hooks, a 

 worked belemnite (/), and a stone bead from Chili, South America. 



-/. L\ Gere, Riceville, Washington County, Wisconsin. — Collection of stone 

 scrapers, cutting-tools, arrow and spear heads, celts, &c, from the vicin- 

 it\ of Riceville. 



Lieut. G. M. Wheeler, United States Geographical Surreys. — Specimens 

 collected by Dr. II. 0. Yarrow, Dr. J. T. Rothrock. and Mr. II. W. Hen 

 shaw in dune and July, L875, from graves at Dos Pueblos and La Patera, 



123 



