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"Beothuk and Micmac."  By Frank G. Speck.

The aggregate number of Indian Notes and Monographs printed and distributed since the last report is 2,842.  These publications are illustrated with 438 plates, 194 text figures and five maps.

In addition to Indians Notes and Monographs, the Museum published, in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Mr. Hendricks, the second number of Leaflets, which treats of Turquois Work of Hawikuh, New Mexico,by F.W. Hodge.

A brochure of 15 pages, entitled "Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: Its Aims and Objects." was printed for general distribution.

EXCHANGES

An exchange of specimens from San Miguel Island, California, and also from Catalina Island, California, was made with Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, for permission to dig on Catalina Island.

A very advantageous exchange was made with Mr. Jacinto Jijon Caamano, of Quito, Ecuador, receiving from him pottery and stone objects from Ecuador for a collection of similar objects from Costa Rica.

An exchange with the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, N.Y., by which we obtained some pottery from Iowa and Peru for Tennessee and Peruvian material of a like class was consummated.

We also exchanged with the Roger Williams Park Museum of Providence, Rhode Island, sundry archaeological specimens for local specimens of stone and pottery and some baskets.

A very important exchange was made with the National Museum of Washington by which we obtained two bird skin blankets from the Seri Indians for a Potawatomi war bundle.

An exchange of pottery from San Diego County, California, was made with the University of California for a large pottery figure with feather head-dress from Peru.

Other exchanges were made with Edwin H. Bishop, Mrs. Willard Kent and Col. Diez de Medina.

LOANS

Although the Director's opinion has not changed regarding the undesirability of the Museum receiving specimens or collections as loans, during the past twelve months several most unusual opportunities have arisen by which the collections of the Museum have been enriched by accepting specimens as loans.  Similar objects would not have been possible for the Museum to secure in any other manner.  Foremost among these is the loan by the Long Island Historical Society of their entire ethnological material.  Some of these specimens were collected as far back as 1853, and this loan collection has brought to the Museum many rare specimens.

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New York University has also turned over as a loan all of their archaeological and ethnological specimens from North, South and Central America for an indefinite period.

Mrs. and Mr. John Jay White have deposited, also as a loan, a very wonderful collection of North American ethnology. This collection is of extreme value, and the Museum has been promised that eventually this collection will become its property.

Lieut. G. T. Emmons deposited his jade collection from Alaska and British Columbia, which is known as the finest in existence from these localities, and makes the Museum's exhibit pre-eminent in this respect.

Mrs. Thomas F. Barr, of Northfield, Vermont, has also deposited as a loan a collection of Plains ethnology that was collected over fifty years ago.

An original painting of the ruins of Uxmal, Mexico, by Frederick Catherwood, has been most generously loaned to us by the American Geographical Society, and has been reproduced in one of our publications.

Other loans have been made by Mr. Joseph Keppler, Miss Jean Morris, Dr. Charles F. Newcombe and Mr. Daniel A. Young; the latter sending about 500 specimens from Long Island, with a letter stating that upon his death they become the property of the Museum.

In every instance of loans by individuals, it has been the Directors' aim to have the owners commit themselves in the respect that the collection shall belong to the Museum upon their demise.

SIZE OF COLLECTIONS

There been added to the collections during the past fiscal year 21,324 specimens; and there are now in the entire collection 105,871 catalog entries, an increase during the year of 8,441.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The greater part of the work carried on in the Department of Anthropology during the past year has been devoted to completing the various details set forth in the report submitted in 1920.

An inventory was made of the general and scientific outfit of the department, listing the furniture, electrical appliances, tools, anthropological instrumentarium, library and stationery.

Storing of the skeletal material in such a manner that it may be easy of access for scientific observation and study was made possible by the installation of a large mahogany stack containing 28 drawers.  These specimens are now properly and systematically located, numbered and nearly all entered in the descriptive catalog. 

The card catalog of Anthropological Literature is added to each day.  It has been the aim of the Department to establish a comprehensive and easy literary reference.  Titles are being arranged alphabetically and divided and subdivided into subjects.

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