ANTHROPOLOGY 



exhibition halls. One of the largest gifts to the basketry collection Briggs 

 was received in 1901 from Mr. George Foster Peabody. It contained 

 435 baskets made by the Indians of California, Oregon, Washington, 

 Alaska, and British Columbia, constituting what is known as the 

 "Briggs Collection." 



Other large contributors are Messrs. Archer M. Huntington and 

 J. G. Phelps Stokes, and Mines. Frank L. Cross, T. K. Gibbs, and C. P. 

 Huntington. The tribes by which the baskets were made are the 

 Maidu, Porno, and Mission, the examples of each of which fill several 

 cases, also the Moquehumnian, Yana, and Wylakie, Yokuts, Shasta, 

 Pitt River, and Hat Creek, Modoc, and Hupa. Other material was 

 collected from the California Indians under the North American Re- 

 search Fund. 



The tribes of New Mexico and Arizona were visited by members of The 

 the Hyde Expedition, who secured a collection illustrating particularly Southwest - 

 the ceremonials and industries of the Hopi and Navajo, and the bas- 

 ketry of the Apache, Pima, and Papago Indians. The physical an- 

 thropological collection contained 80 plaster casts, over 500 negatives, 

 and measurements of more than 900 Zuni, Moki, Navajo, Ute, and 

 Apache Indians. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA 



The extensive collections of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition , „ . 



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embrace specimens illustrating the archaeology of the interior and Pacific 

 the coast of British Columbia, and the ethnology of the most im- pec 

 portant tribes of that region — the Thompson River Indians, the 

 Bella Coola, the Kwakiutl, and the Nootka. 



The archaeological survey of the Thompson River Region was 

 begun by Mr. Harlan I. Smith for the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 

 in 1897 and continued through 1899. Extensive excavations were 

 conducted near Kamloops and Lytton, where numerous remains of 

 previous inhabitants were discovered. Almost all of the finds ante- 

 date the advent of the whites, and give an excellent insight into the 

 culture of the people of that period. The shell mounds on the Lower 



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