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^[[Annual Report '93]]
^[[1 Copy Nov 7/93 
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Department of Aboriginal Pottery.
W.H. Holmes, Hon. Curator.

The work of the year in this department has consisted as heretofore in entering and placing accessions, and in the selection of exchange series. An important feature of the season was the selection of a series of vessels to represent the art of the Pueblo tribes in the Columbian Exposition at Chicago and the preparation of a group of life sized figures representing Zuni women making and decorating pottery. The latter work was executed by Mr. F.H. Cushing. The Keam collection of ancient Pueblo Pottery, for some years exhibited in this department passed, early in the year, into the hands of the Hemingway Expedition and an exhaustive descriptive catalogue of the material, which still remains in our custody, was made by Miss [[intentional space with circled handwritten note to "ask Mason"]] Williams.
[[circled]] The last catalogue number for 1892 is 155064 and the last for 1893 is 155312. [[/circled]] [[paragraph symbol]] The accessions of the year include a large number of entries, the most important being that of a series of ancient pueblo vases purchased from Mr. H. Hales of New Jersey to form a part of ^[[the]] department exhibit of aboriginal ceramics at the Columbian Exposition. Small collections, mostly of sherds only, have been made by Mr. Gerard Fowke and Mr. Wm. Dinwiddie of the Bureau of Ethnology, in Virginia and Maryland^[[,]] and Mr. C. Mindeleff and Mr. James