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the purpose of supplying missing links in the already existing collections, so that very little of the material secured during the last fiscal year is such that would not be useful in the study series. But by far the largest and most precious addition to the collection was the material secured by Doctor J. Walter Fewkes among the ancient pueblos of Arizona, chiefly pottery of ancient type and objects of wood, textile and stone connected with the old-time worship of the pueblos; accession 31,151. The value of Doctor Fewke^[['s material]] consists first, in the fact that the student who is to describe the collection was the one also who made it; secondly, while the modern pueblos have been well studied by the various members of the Bureau of Ethnology and we have excellent information also from Doctor Seler and others concerning the culture of ancient Mexicans and Central Americans, Doctor Fewkes has been able to trace out through this large number of examples the symbolism of the pueblo worship and to compare it with that of more cultured regions lying south. It forms, therefore, a connecting link between the study of modern pottery made by other students and the old culture of the architectural tribes in Middle America.