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Curators reports file
Annual '91 
Holmes

Copied July 8

Report of the Department of American Aboriginal [[underlined]] Pottery [[/underlined]] in the U.S. National Museum, 1891

[[circled]] Copied [[/circled]]
[[strikethrough]] July 1st '91 [[/strikethrough]]
By [[underlined]] William H. Holmes, Honorary Curator [[/underlined]]
In this Department
During the fiscal year ending June 30th 1891 active operations have been [[strikethrough]] quite practically suspended [[/strikethrough]] unimportant as the installment of material [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is practically complete, [[strikethrough]] and the accessions are not numerous. [[/strikethrough]]

Accessions for the year are numerous but no collections of especial importance have been received. The last catalogue number for June 1890, is 135363; for June 1891, 136183.

[[paragraph symbol]] Such researches as have been conducted by the curator relate mainly to collections made by the Bureau of Ethnology during the past few years in the Mississippi Valley and along the atlantic coast. They will be embodied in a forthcoming volume of Contributions to the Bureau of Ethnology.

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