ANTHROPOLOGY 



COSTA RICA 



The Museum has an excellent exhibit illustrating the archaeology 

 of Costa Rica. The nucleus of it was the collection made by Dr. 

 Francis C. Nicholas on an expedition in 1899, which was financed by- 

 Messrs. William Mack, Willard Brown, I. Mel. Strong, and R. P. 

 Doremus. Through an exchange in 1908 the collection was enriched 

 by the addition of over 150 specimens of pottery and stone objects, 

 among which are some very rare forms. Another exchange with the 

 Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh added a few new forms and furnished 

 a rather complete series of small stone objects, especially amulets, 

 beads of jadite, and other stones. 



The ethnology of the Costa Rican Indians is illustrated in a col- 

 lection obtained by Dr. Nicholas in 1901. 



HONDURAS 



An expedition to Honduras was made in cooperation with the Joint Ex _ 

 Peabody Museum of Cambridge, the Peabody Museum having a con- pedition of 



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cession from the government ol Honduras permitting archaeological Museum and 

 researches. The work, which was in charge of Mr. George Byron American 



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Gordon, was carried on at the prehistoric ruins of Capan, and as its Natural 

 portion of the finds the Museum received a number of interesting tgg^ 

 sculptures in stone, besides a collection of small objects in pottery 

 and stone. A series of molds were taken of the sculptures and hiero- 

 glyphs of the great stairway of the temple in Capan, and facsimiles 

 made for this Museum through funds provided by the Duke of Loubat. 

 The Museum's share of the expedition's expense was subscribed for 

 by the Duke of Loubat and Messrs. William C. Whitney and Morris K. 

 Jesup. 



OTHER COUNTRIES 



Through the interest and generous support of the patrons of the 

 Department of Anthropology, the Museum has acquired important 

 collections from South America, northeastern Siberia, China, Africa, 



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