REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHEOLOGY IN THE U, S. NATIONAL 



MUSEUM, 1887. 



By Charles Rau, Curator. 



REVIEW OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ACCESSIONS. 



The following are the most important additions to the collection dur- 

 ing the year : 



Edward L. Hyde, of Middleborough, Massachusetts, sent six casts of depressions 

 produced by grinding stone implements, taken from the rock on which they occur, 

 at Middletown, Rhode Island. 



W. W. Adams, of Mapleton , New York, sent a flint fish-hook from Cayuga County, and 

 a copper dart-head found near the south end of Owasco Lake, in the same county. 



From the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts (through Prof. F. W. 

 Putnam), were obtained six argillite implements taken from the quaternary gravels 

 at Trenton, New Jersey, by Dr. Charles C. Abbott, and two photographs, one show- 

 ing the Abbott collection in the Peabody Museum, and the other a number of bone 

 fish-hooks belonging to different collections in the same museum. 



Dr. Charles C. Abbott, of Trenton, New Jersey, presented two argillite implements 

 taken by the donor from the Trenton gravels, about 6 feet below the surface. 



A. R. Roessler, of Liberty Hill, Texas, sent a cutting tool remarkable for unusual 

 notching, from Fall Creek, San Saba County, Texas. 



C. T. Wiltheiss, of Piqua, Oh o, gave a good cast of a stone pipe in the form of an 

 animal's head. The original was found in Piqua. 



T. L. Whitehead, of Dexter City, Missouri, sent a collection from a mound in Stod- 

 dard County: A quartzite celt, with expanding cutting-edge, chipped and afterwards 

 polished, a large flint digging-tool, a large carved stone pipe (calumet pipe), eight 

 clay vessels, and two fragments of pottery (birds' heads). A very good collection. 



H. W. Turner, of the U. S. Geological Survey, gave a stone mortar from auriferous 

 gravel on the north side of American River, near Folsom, Sacramento County, Cali- 

 fornia. This mortar is of elegant form, and differs from any in the collection. 



W. Cuppage, of Winfield, Kansas, gave a copper celt-gouge, found at Sunnidale, 

 near Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario, Cauada. 



From W. W. Blake, of Kansas City, Missouri, was obtained the Fischer collection of 

 Mexican antiquities, consistiug of obsidian flakes and cores, arrow and spear heads 

 of obsidian, flint, and chalcedony, a largo cutlass-shaped weapon or implement of ob- 

 sidian, polished celts and chisels, polishing- tools, pendants of chalcedony, obsidian, 

 and other materials, some in the shape of human and animal figures and heads, lab- 

 rets of obsidian, a large number of stone heads (partly of jade), mirrors of iron py- 



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