REPORT ON THE SECTION OF AMERICAN PREHISTORIC POTTERY IN 

 THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



By W. H. Holmes, Honorary Curator, 



The curator has continued the installation of aboriginal pottery, di- 

 recting his efforts chiefly to labeling, cataloguiug, and classifying the 

 accessions received in the summer and fall of 1884. The very extensive 

 collections of Pueblo material made for the World's Industrial and Cot- 

 ton Centennial Exposition, in New Orleans, arrived too late to be made 

 fully available for exhibition, but a small representative series of ves- 

 sels and other objects of clay was forwarded to New Orleans. The col- 

 lection of ancient pottery recently obtained from Chiriqui, Panama, and 

 partly paid for from the exposition funds, was also represented. The 

 most important accessions have been from the explorations of Mr. L. 

 H. Ayme in Mexico. It is hoped that a portion, at least, of the pot- 

 tery court will be opened to the public by the end of the present calen- 

 dar year. 



