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Annual Report of the Director. 



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obtained through the liberality of Mr. Stanley McCormick. This 

 collection comprises nearly 3,000 specimens from certain important 

 Hopi and Zuni ruins, and with the specimens secured by previous 

 expeditions made possible through Mr. McCormick's generosity, has 

 placed the Department in possession of between 7,000 and 8,000 

 pieces of pre-historic pottery. Other important accessions in this 

 department have resulted from several expeditions in the field ; 

 Mr. Newcombe among the Haida Indians, Mr Miller among 

 the tribes of the Shahaptian stock, Mr. Hudson in California, Assistant 

 Curator Simms among tribes of the Puman and Yuman stock, Assist- 

 ant Curator Owen among the Apache and Navajo tribes, and Curator 

 Dorsey among the Osage, Pawnee and Wichita tribes. A valuable 

 collection of over 200 sets of games of the North American Indians 

 has been added, as well as also eight buffalo shields, the latter being 

 secured by exchange with the National Museum. In addition 

 to these very large collections, certain other accessions are deserv- 

 ing of mention. Chief among the purchases of the year is that 

 of the collection comprising about 300 copper implements and 

 about 900 stone implements from Wisconsin and six well-authen- 

 ticated and well-preserved wampum treaty belts ; also, by purchase 

 from Mr. Wyman, were obtained two very handsome buckskin suits, 

 secured by the artist, Mayer, in 1864, from the Sioux, in Western 

 Minnesota. These suits are of the highest interest and value on 

 account of their age and excellent state of preservation. Two other 

 old Klamath suits of buckskin, believed to be the only suits of that 

 reservation, were also secured by purchase. A small but interesting 

 collection illustrating certain phases of the life of the Winnebago 

 Indians of Wisconsin was purchased "from Mr. T. R. Roddy. 

 Another interesting acquisition was that of two Zuni shields, pictured 

 by Mr. Cushing in the Second Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 and described by him as the "Fetiches of the Priesthood of the War 

 Bow," a Zuni esoteric society. The shields were among the most 

 sacred possessions of the Zuni and were acquired by purchase from a 

 dealer. An exchange with the National Museum enabled the Museum 

 to obtain eight buffalo shields of the highest value to the collection. 

 It may be of interest to note in connection with the two acquisitions 

 of shields above mentioned, that the Curator of the Department 

 secured during the summer from one tribe seventeen shields, and 

 that Assistant Curator Owen secured two from another tribe, so that 

 the Museum is now in possession of nearly forty of these important 

 and characteristic objects of the Plains Indians. The Division 

 of Somatology secured by exchange with Mr. David Boyle, of 

 the Archaeological Museum, Toronto, an invaluable collection 



