310 Field Museum of Natural History — Reports, Vol. V. 





No. of 



Total No. 



Entries 



Total No. 





Record 



of Entries to 









Books 



Dec. 31, 1919 



1919 



Written 



Department of Anthropology . 



38 



153.548 



577 



153,688 



Department of Botany 



58 



482,076 



4,586 



87.175 



Department of Geology 



22 



141,020 



591 



8,018 



Department of Zoology 



40 



101,014 



554 



34,406 





14 



111,076 



2,716 



277,026 



Section of Photography 



20 



120,844 



1,706 





ACCESSIONS. — The most notable accession of the year in the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology is represented by the generous and memorable 

 gift of Mr. WiUiam Wrigley, Jr., being the gold treasiire excavated from 

 a mound on the river Nechi, in the province of Antigua, Colombia, 

 South America. This remarkable and imique collection consists of 36 

 pre-Coltmibian gold ornaments, comprising four large embossed breast- 

 plates of pure gold, two collars of gold foil, two rectangular plates, two 

 fragmentary sheets of gold foil, one necklace of gold beads, four pairs of 

 gold ear-rings, three cast figures of a bird, and eighteen miscellaneous 

 ornaments. The four breastplates were beaten out on stone moulds: 

 carved in relief with the design required; they were apparently interred 

 with women of high social standing, who were buried adorned with 

 jewelry and ornaments they had most prized during their lifetime. 

 Two of these plates are selected for illustration in this Report; also 

 one of the birds and three of the ear-rings, which are exquisite both as 

 to artistic quality of design and perfection of technique. The gold collec- 

 tion has been installed in the Gem Room, and is accompanied by a general 

 label setting forth its significance. It has attracted a great deal of attention 

 and given rise to many favorable comments, both in the press and on 

 the part of archaeologists. Mr. Stanley Field made a notable gift to 

 the Department by adding to its Tibetan collection a fine portrait- 

 statue, 22 inches high, wrought in cloisonne enamel and representing a 

 Grand Lama of the Buddhist Church of Tibet. Comparison with other 

 known images permits the establishment of the identity of this person- 

 age. In all probability it is a portrayal of Pal-dan-ye-she, a church 

 dignitary only next in rank to the Dalai Lama of Lhasa and having his 

 seat in Tashilhunpo in central Tibet. He is known as the Tashi Lama, 

 being famous for having been the first Tibetan, who in 1774 entered into 

 negotiations with the Anglo-Indian Government through George Bogle, 

 an emissary of Warren Hastings, Governor General of India. In his 

 diary Bogle characterizes him thus: "His disposition is open, candid, 

 and generous. He is extremely merry and entertaining in conversation, 

 and tells a pleasant story with a great deal of htmior and action. I 

 endeavored to find out in his character those defects which are insepara- 

 ble from humanity, but he is so universally beloved that I had no success, 



