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[[underlined]] 2 copies t.w. 800. [[/underlined]]
2 Copies. C. R. Nov. 27/86
[[underlined]] Kiupper Mason Ann. Rep. 85-86. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Report of the Curator of the Department of Ethnology.
U. S. National Museum. [[/underlined]]

The work of this department during the year has been for the most part tentative and preparatory in two directions, receiving and caring for new material so as to render it most available and valuable, and preparing series of objects for exhibition study and exchange. 

In order to give greater efficiency to the former method of cataloguing accessions, the following plan has been adopted. Desultory material is entered as formerly in the standard catalogue, after that a system of card cataloguing of an encyclopaedic character enables the curator to gather from many sources all that is valuable about the objects in hand.