190 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1885. 



Black Bear, TJrsus Americanus. Skull and skin. 



D. L. Snyder, Stribling Springs, Va. Purchased, $10. 15730. '85. (IV) 



Bird Skins, from Pilot Town and Mayport, Fla. For selection of desiderata. 

 C. C. Nutting, Carlinville, 111. 15731. '85. (V, A) 



Minerals. 



George Kiefer, Lima, Peru. (Sent to A. E. Foote, Philadelphia, for sale.) 

 15732. '85. (XIV) 



Indian Objects. One hundred specimens from North Carolina, including cutting- 

 tools, arrow and spear-heads, perforators, grooved axes, stone-club head, stone 

 pick(?), a discoidal stoue, a perforated sinker (?), a small potstone cup, stone 

 slab with mortar-cavity, a potstone mortar, and a perforated pendant made of a 

 pebble of banded slate. 

 J. M. Spainhour, Lenoir, N. C. 15733. '85. (Ill, A) 



Seeds of Onosmodium molle, Michx. A plant in the borage family. 



John W. Emmert, Mountainville, Tenn. 15734. '85. (XIII, B) 



Fossils. Maclurea sp.? (2). 



Miles Rock, Guatemala. 15735. '85. (XII, A.) 



Antiquities. A collection of crosses and Dotched darts from the summits of the voL 

 canoes Tacanna and Tajnmulco, and high mountains in their vicinity, in the 

 western part of Guatemala, used there by the Mam Indians in their secret and 

 primitive religious rites ("costumbres"). 



Rain-shields or cloaks of palm leaves used by the Ixtatan and other Indians in the 

 western parts of the department of Huehuetenango. 



Bowlder with rudely-sculptured human face, from the ruins of Saculeo (near Hue- 

 hueteanango, Guatemala), the ancient capital of the Mam Indian Kings. 



Sculptured (sun?) stone from the debris around an altar in ruins of ancient Ixtatan 

 temple on the summit of Cerro Ixbul, 40 miles south-east from Comitan, in Mex- 

 ico. This is a monument on the Guatemala boundary. 

 Miles Rock, Guatemala. 15735. '85. (II, A) 



Rocks. 



Miles Rock, Guatemala. 15735. '85. (XV) 



Wood and Leaves. 



Miles Rock, Guatemala. 15735. '85. (XIII, B) 



Smoked Porpoise, Phoccena communis. Two samples : one of meat from the side ; 

 the other a sausage, two-thirds porpoise meat and one-third beef. 

 George L. Sparks, Philadelphia, Pa. 15736. '85. (I) 



Porpoise, Phoccena communis, in the flesh. 



M. M. Pierce, keeper Orleans life-saving station, East Orleans, Mass. 15737. 

 '85. (IV) 



Indian Cradle-Board, made by the Ogalalla Sioux Indians of Black Hills. 



Mrs. Anderson, Washington, D. C. Purchased, $6. 15738. '85. (II, A) 



Mining Scenes in Bannock mining district, Beaver Head County, Montana. 

 Philip Shenon, Montana Territory. 15739. '85. (XVI) 



Photograph of smelting works. 



J. P. Gazzam, Saint Louis, Mo. Purchased. 15740. '85. (XVI) 



Bird Skins. Two specimens of Icterus cucullatus, from Yucatan. 

 Charles K. Worthen, Warsaw, 111. 15741. '85. (V, A) 



