74 Report of the President 



C. Longley presented his Jamaica archaeological collection 

 now exhibited in the South American Hall. Among other 

 important accessions may be noted an elaborate decoration of 

 human bones from Tibet presented by Mrs. John Magee; a 

 very old piece of beadwork from the Delaware Indians from 

 Mr. Ogden Mills; a series of archaeological specimens from 

 Central America by Mr. R. H. Millward, and a large series of 

 cliff ruin pottery purchased through contributions of Mr. 

 Archer M. Huntington. The several field parties returned 

 with the usual quota of specimens. 



Mr. Minor C. Keith has generously deposited in the 



Museum his unequaled collection of pottery and stone carvings 



r .. . from Costa Rica. This collection comprises 



_ . more than 7,soo catalogued numbers, including: 



on Deposit & s 



some 450 gold objects, and is being installed, 



so far as space permits, in the Mexican Hall. Inasmuch as 

 the Museum possesses a very incomplete series from Costa 

 Rica, the deposit of the Keith Collection is of special im- 

 portance. 



In pursuance of the policy that the activities of the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History be devoted to primitive and 

 uncivilized peoples and those of the Metropolitan Museum of 

 Art to civilized peoples, the latter Museum has deposited with 

 us its collection of Mexican stone figures and Peruvian pot- 

 tery. These collections supplement the Mexican and Peruvian 

 collections already possessed by the American Museum and 

 materially strengthen our exhibition and study series. 



In the exhibition halls the work of the year has been 

 chiefly the refinement of exhibits. A new plan for the Jesup 

 „ ., . . North Pacific Hall was developed which allows 



for the expansion of the Eskimo and other units. 

 The greater part of the South Sea Islands Hall was revised. 

 A small model of an earth-lodge, an exact reproduction of 

 one still standing at Fort Berthold, North Dakota, has been 

 installed in the Plains Hall. A large Hopi Group for the 

 Southwest Hall is nearly finished and progress has been made 

 on the mural paintings for the North Pacific Hall. For the 

 North American Halls a new tribal map was prepared giving 



