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ticularly with reference to the identification, labeling and 

 care of the great Hall collection of fossils. He is greatly 

 missed in the Museum. 



LIVING AND EXTINCT RACES OF MEN 



Clark Wissler, Curator 



Department of Anthropology. — This has been an ex- 

 ceptional year in the acquisition of large and important 

 collections. Mr. J. P. Morgan presented the Lenders collection 

 of costumes and decorated objects from the various Indian 

 tribes in central North America. This is a very complete and 

 extensive collection and especially valuable as an exhibition 

 series for that area. A large collection from the Hopi Indians 

 made by Rev. H. R. Voth was purchased by authorization of 

 the Appointive Committee on Primitive Peoples of the South- 

 west, of which Mr. Archer M. Huntington is Chairman. This 

 collection contains many of the older and rarer pieces illustrat- 

 ing Hopi ethnology. From Mr. Anson W. Hard was received 

 a large series of Saltillo and Chimayo and other native fabrics 

 from southwestern United States. The pieces from the 

 Chimayo are of the older type, examples of which have not 

 been manufactured for many years, these Indians being now 

 practically extinct. A special collection of Navajo blankets 

 was presented by Mrs. Russell Sage. By purchase was acquired 

 the Starr Congo collection made by Professor Frederick Starr 

 during two years' exploration in Central Africa; the Benedict 

 Bagobo (Philippine) collection made during three years' 

 exploration by Miss Laura E. W. Benedict, and the Tefft 

 American Indian collection presenting a large series of objects, 

 especially from tribes of the Eastern Woodlands, the result of 

 several years' collection and selection by Mr. Erastus T. Tefft. 



Among the important collections made by members of our 

 staff are those from the various divisions of the Apache and 

 the Navajo by Associate Curator Goddard; collections illus- 

 trating the material culture and arts of the various Rio Grande 

 Pueblo villages by Assistant Curator Spinden; collections from 

 the Papago and other Indian tribes of Arizona by Curator 

 Wissler, all of which were made under a grant from the 

 Committee on Primitive Peoples of the Southwest. In 



