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UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
WASHINGTON
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one to be devoted to a separate stock; the objects were arranged in these alcoves to show the habitation, industries and activities of the tribes belonging to the several stocks; supplementary to this a series of alcoves were devoted to characteristic arts, and in these the materials, apparatus and products of each art were arranged upon an ethnographic basis, enabling the beholder to compare tribe with tribe upon the basis of a single art. 

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Accessions

The following accessions, made during the year, deserve special mention: As a result of the Patent Congress, Miss Nellie Long Maynard loaned to the