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14 Loans were made from the following: Major William C. Gotshall, of two moose skin suits with quilled decoration from the Kobuk Indians (Northern Athabascan) near Fort Yukon, Alaska. The 107th Regiment National Guard of New York, of a beaded baby carrier; a pistol holder; a catlinite pipe; and a prayer stick; all from the Brule and Oglalla Sioux. Mrs. Dorothy H. Popenoe, a very unique tripod polychrome bowl found in a mound in Honduras. Mr. J. B. Lea, a medicine stone that belonged to a Voodoo doctor in Haiti. Size of Collections There have been added to the collections during the past fiscal year 17,112 specimens; and there are now in the entire collection 164,514 catalogue entries - an increase during the year of 5,317. Department of Physical Anthropology Due to the necessity of relinquishing the building on St. Nicholas Place, where the Department of Physical Anthropology had been housed since the definite organization of the Museum, the collections of the department were transferred to the Museum Annex, early in the spring of 1928. In order to keep in close touch with the Museum administration and his scientific activities in Columbia University, the curator's office has been established in the Museum building on Broadway and 155th Street. The work arranging the material in the new quarters is progressing and should be finished this spring. The curator, Dr. Oetteking, spent the summer of 1928 in Germany visiting institutions and studying the greater part of the time. In August he attended and addressed the fiftieth Anniversary Meeting of the German Anthropological Association, held at Hamburg. In new York, the curator attended and addressed the XXIII International Americanists Meeting and that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The curator's teaching activities at Columbia University, since 1920, culminated in his definite engagement as a member of the teaching staff beginning at the present spring semester. The publications issued by this department, in addition to the article by Bruno Oetteking in Indian Notes and Monographs, Miscellaneous No. 45, mentioned elsewhere, herein, comprise the following titles: Otteking, Bruno. The skeletal remains of American Indians in the Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany. Indian Notes, 5:79-92. 1928. [[end page]] [[start page]] 15 Oetteking, Bruno. Primitive traits in the American aboriginal population. Institut International d'Anthropologie, III. Session (Amsterdam, September 20-29, 1927.) 264-267. 1928. The new accessions to the collections comprise the following items: 1. Skeletal material from Arizona, mostly vertebrae. 2. Skeletal material from Eagle Canon, Brewster County, Texas. (The Thea Heye expedition, collected by M. R. Harrington.) 3. Six skulls from the Tomo River, Colombia, near the junction of that river with the Orinoco River. (Collected by the Thea Heye-Dickey expedition.) Treasurer's Report Hereto attached and submitted as a part hereof is the Treasurer's Report for the year ending March 31, 1929. Respectfully submitted, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF THE American INDIAN HEYE FOUNDATION George G. Heye, Chairman Frederic K. Seward, Secretary. [[end page]]
