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the most conspicuous religious buildings of China, veritable landmarks 

 with a detailed recorded history. This collection presents the very- 

 first comprehensive attempt to introduce them into a museum and to 

 render their study generally accessible. The models being reproduced 

 according to a rigid scale (about Vso of the originals, on an average), 

 convey an exact idea of the original monimients and allow a minute 

 study, even of details of construction. All provinces of China are 

 represented in the collection; besides, there are two pagodas from Korea 

 and two from Tibet. A prominent accession by piu-chase is a collection 

 of more than eight hundred Mexican archaeological objects. The 

 majority of antiquities in this collection are from excavations on the 

 outskirts of San Miguel Amantla, Azcapotzalco. Among the himdred 

 pieces of pottery forming a part of this collection are many rare and 

 unique forms. There are also about two hundred small objects of 

 great excellence and artistic quality, comprising Mixtec stone figurines, 

 mirrors of obsidian and pyrate nodules, beads and pendants of various 

 forms carved from jadeite, agate, and other translucent stones. Another 

 acquisition made by purchase consists of seven choice Navaho blankets, 

 in good condition, collected about forty years ago at Forth Wingate, 

 New Mexico, by Lieut. Col. Wilson T. Hartz of the U. S. Army. The 

 most notable gift received during the year is the collection of Japanese 

 sword-guards and sword-furniture brought together by the efforts of 

 Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus. This important collection consists of over 

 nine hundred specimens, comprising all the manifold designs ever 

 conceived for the decoration of sword-guards, and covering all periods 

 from mediaeval to modem times. These appurtenances of the sword 

 represent a splendid object-lesson in the application of Japanese design, 

 and eloquently reveal the innate spirit of Japanese chivalry and gal- 

 lantry. The gift of Dr. Gunsaulus is accompanied by a valuable 

 collection of books relating to Japanese art and in particular to sword- 

 guards, as well as by a special catalogue in manuscript, prepared by 

 Miss Helen Gunsaulus with great care after many years of earnest 

 study of the subject. Also 1,793 negatives of the sword-guards (the 

 obverse and reverse of each having been taken) were presented by 

 Dr. Gunsaulus. Eight musical instruments made in Peking were 

 presented by the Commission of the Republic of China at the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition. To Mr. Luther Parker, a former 

 government official in the Philippines, the Department is indebted for 

 a small, but very interesting collection of ancient pottery fragments 

 and other material, found by him in burial caves on the Islands. This 

 pottery comes from the kilns of Sawankalok in Siam and from those of 

 southern China, and testifies to the medieval intercourse of the Islands 



