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^[[Blue and Underlined: Annual Report]]
^[[Blue: Curators Report file[?] Ethnology 88-89]]

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[[Underlined]] Report on the Department of Ethnology in the U.S. National Museum, 1889. [[Underlined]] By [[Underlined]] Otis J. Mason. Curator[[Underlined]]

Among the collections secured during the year, the following are worthy of especial mention.  

Dr. Washington Matthews' type set of Navajo blankets, upon which his paper published in the third annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology is based.

A small lot of specimens from the Klyuquot Indians well authenticated by Jas. G. Swan, to be used in labeling older objects from the same locality.

Antiquities and sketches from Egypt by Dr. James Grant Bey, of Cairo, Egypt, accompanied by letter gives full information. 

The entire contents of an Indian grave, presumably Choctaw, by Dr. W.A. Wheton, Moline, Miss., to be exhibited, as a polyorganic museum unit.

A splendid series of religious objects