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^[[Curators Report file 88-89]]
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Report on the Section of Aboriginal Pottery in the U.S. National Museum, 1889.
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^[[By]] [[double underline]] William H. Holmes, [[/double underline]] [[underline]] Honorary Curator. [[/underline]]
Little work has been required in this section beyond the reception and installment of new accessions. The collections and additions for the year fall considerably short of those of preceding years. Through our official collectors, chiefly agents of the Bureau of Ethnology, 532 specimens have been received. Through purchases we have 151, and through donation 355.
Among the more important collections are donations of pottery from a mound near Lake Apopka, Florida, by Dr. Featherstonehaugh, and of pottery from a mound on Perdido Bay, Alabama, by Mr. F.H. Parsons. The latter collection is one of the most important ever received from the Gulf Coast.
Researches connected with this section made by the Curator were limited to a study of the pottery of the Potomac

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