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EXCHANGES

The exchange mentioned in last year's report with Mr. John L. Nelson was continued during this fiscal year. We obtained from him additional Kachina dolls and many other ceremonial objects from the Hopi and Pueblo Indians, besides a large collection of pottery from the same tribes. In return we gave him duplicate pottery and textiles from the Southwest, and a few pieces of ethnology from British Columbia. 

By an exchange with The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, in Toronto, of two gold mummy masks from Peru we obtained two outstanding specimens of Chilkat weaving; a blanket and an extremely rare shirt. 

For a large representative collection of material from the Eburne Shell heap in Vancouver, British Columbia, we exchanged with the City Museum of Vancouver archeological and historical specimens from the vicinity of Fort Ticonderoga, New York.

An accumulation of objects from foreign countries was most advantageously exchanged with the Nationalmuseet of Copenhagen for a collection of 246 specimens, mostly of an archeological type, from the Julianehaab district of West Greenland, excavated by Dr. Therkel Mathiassen during 1934. 

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