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ance. Among these may be mentioned the General U. S. 

 Hollister Navajo Blanket Collection, which gives us a fairly 

 complete series of these unique and interesting textiles. Dr. 

 Carl Lumholtz, the famous explorer, made an expedition to 

 the little known parts of northern Mexico and southern 

 Arizona, where he gathered an ethnological collection among 

 the Papago and Pima villages, a type series of which was 

 secured to supplement our rapidly growing southwestern col- 

 lections. Practically the only remaining gap in our series for 

 the Indians of Alaska and British Columbia was filled by the 

 purchase of the Emmons Tsimshian Collection. Mrs. Edward 

 H. Harriman presented a buffalo skin tipi collected several 

 years ago by Mr. Edwin W. Deming. Through the joint 

 efforts of Assistant Curator Herbert J. Spinden and Mr. Juan 

 Reyna, parts of several new and heretofore unknown Mexican 

 codices were obtained. A full enumeration of the various 

 gifts and purchases will be given under another head, but it 

 remains to note that extensive field collections were returned 

 from the Cree, Menomini, Crow, Hidatsa, Rio Grande Pueblos, 

 Kiowa Apache and Pima Indian tribes. 



In accordance with the general plan for the arrangement 

 of the anthropological collections, the west wing, first floor, 

 was apportioned among three great North American culture 

 areas: the Eastern Woodlands, the Plains and the South- 

 west. The installation of these units is proceeding as rapidly 

 as cases are provided, and in such a manner as to keep 

 the halls continually open to visitors. Early in the year 

 two new halls were opened: one for the South Sea Islands 

 and one for the Philippines. Although the arrangement in 

 these halls is not yet complete, many of the main character- 

 istics of South Sea and Malay cultures are now on exhibition. 

 During the latter part of the year five Tahitian natives visited 

 the city and posed for casts and other details from which 

 three life-sized groups are now under construction. 



Many years ago the Museum secured some important 

 archaeological collections from Europe, representing both the 

 paleolithic and the neolithic period. During the year these 

 collections were reclassified by Professor George Grant 

 MacCurdy of Yale University, and a preliminary exhibit opened 



