ANTHROPOLOGY 



Porto Rican 



Collection, 



$805. 



E. H. Davis 



Collection, 



$1,800. 



Squires 



Collection, 



$2,000. 



Marquand 

 Collection. 



Stuart 

 Collection. 



Bement 



Collection, 



$450. 



Jones 



Collection, 



$7,500. 



THE Department of Anthropology was formed in 1873. It re- 

 ceived a fresh impetus through the appointment of Professor 

 F. W. Putnam as Curator in 1895. Its collections increased 

 so rapidly- -by purchase and donation alike — that until the west wing 

 was ready, the question of exhibition and storage room was a most 

 serious problem. 



Miscellaneous archaeological material, especially Indian implements, 

 had been received from the very beginning of the Museum's history, 

 but the first accession of importance was a collection of rare imple- 

 ments made by the aborigines of Porto Rico, purchased and presented 

 by the Trustees in 1873. The following year the E. H. Davis Archaeo- 

 logical Collection, containing many typical and rare forms of pre- 

 historic workmanship from the mounds of Ohio, was purchased. 



The collection of rare antiquities gathered by Hon. E. G. Squire 

 during his several years' search in Central and South America was 

 acquired by purchase in 1875. 



In 1878 over 200 pieces of Missouri mound pottery were received 

 as a gift from Mr. H. G. Marquand; a very important collection con- 

 taining 3,000 implements used by the prehistoric men of the valley 

 of the Somme, France, was purchased and presented by the President, 

 Mr. R. L. Stuart; and by purchase the Museum acquired the Bement 

 Collection illustrating the Stone Age of Denmark. 



The next large collection acquired was that gathered by Col. 

 Charles Jones among the Indians of the southern United States. It 

 represented their art, religion, and industries. Two thirds of this 

 collection was purchased by the Museum in 1877, the remainder being 

 presented by Mr. Robert L. Stuart in 1881. 



All of these were the collections which comprised the Department 



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