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^[[ [[boxed]] EA [[/boxed]]
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copied 9-9-92]]

[[stamped]] Curator in Charge JUL 18 1892 [[/stamped]]

[[underlined]] Report on the department of American Aboriginal Pottery [[/underlined]] ^[[in the U.S. National Museum, 1892]] [[strikethrough]][[underlined]] in the National Museum 1892. [[/underlined]]
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By [[/strikethrough]]

^[[By]] [[underlined]] William H. Holmes, Honorary Curator. [[/underlined]] 
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The operations in this department have consisted in the installment of a large number of collections, none of which are of especial importance. These consisted greatly of fragmental wares collected for the Bureau of Ethnology by the curator and his assistants in the tide-water districts of Maryland and Virginia, and in the Gila valley, Arizona. [[circled, with notation indicating it should be moved to a new paragraph at the end]] The last catalogue number for June 1891 is [[strikethrough]] 136183 [[/strikethrough]] ^[[136189]]; and for June, 1892, [[strikethrough]] 155306. [[/strikethrough]] ^[[155063]] [[/circled]]

During the year the curator completed an elaborate paper upon the pottery of the mound builders to be published by the Bureau of Ethnology. Two papers upon aboriginal decorative art, derived from ceramic sources were published in the ^[["]] American Anthropologist ^[["]], one in the January and the other in the April number.