Jan., 1918. Annual Report of the Director. 



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Accessions. 



DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 

 (accessions are by gift unless otherwise designated.) 



ALLIS, CHARLES, Milwaxikee, Wisconsin. 



3 sword-guards — Japan. 

 AYER, EDWARD E., Chicago. 



Eskimo steatite cooking vessel and lamp — Alaska. 

 Metate with muller — San Juan Capistrano, California. 

 BROSS, MRS. MASON, Chicago. 



5 pieces of pottery — Southwest and Mexico. 



COOPER, A. T. and WRIGHT, JOHN W., Fort Bayard, New Mexico. 



325 prehistoric stone implements and pottery — Chihuahua, Mexico. 

 DRUMMOND, DR. I. W., New York City. 



1 ancient jade chisel — China. 

 EMMONS, LIEUT. G. T., Princeton, New Jersey. 



2 Shaman's head-dresses of bear claws, Tsimshian — Upper Nass River, 



B. C. (exchange). 

 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. 

 Purchases: 



Prehistoric flint arrowheads — Edgewater, Illinois. 

 General collection from Eskimo, Alaska, about 390 specimens — Nome, 

 Alaska. 



6 ancient ceremonial ivory tablets — Peking, China. 

 FRIESSER, JULIUS, Chicago. 



2 flint projectile points — Holland, Michigan. 

 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Ottawa, 

 Canada. 



I birchbark canoe — Montagnais, St. Lawrence River, Canada 

 (exchange). 

 HARVEY, CHARLES A., Chicago. 



I burned clay pot, 2 skeletons — Marblehead, Illinois. 

 HOLBROOK, MISS FLORENCE, Chicago. 



1 pair embroidered mittens — Upemivik, Greenland. 

 ITO, TOKUMATSU, Chicago. 



Album containing 92 old Japanese charms printed on paper, 



accompanied by a transHteration and translation of the legends — 

 Tokyo, Japan. 

 MASON, J. A., Chicago. 



2 stone celts, 5 clay figures, 5 groups of potsherds — Tampico, City of 



Mexico, Campeche. 

 PIER, GARRETT C, Greenwich, Connecticut. 



19 ancient beads of jasper, agate and rock-crystal, i necklace of lacquered 

 clay beads, 6 ancient gilded bronze rings — Japan. 



