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[[stamped]] G Brown Goode [[/stamped]]
[[stamped]] S44770 /stamped]]

K.7.u. Rau. May rep.

[[underline]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during May, 1885. [[/underline]]

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 349; in Loan Book 4; 52 sketches made.

[[underline]] Specification of Additions. [[/underline]]

^[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] E.J. Rockwood, Worcester, Mass. [[/underline]] A cast of a stone carving in the shape of a beaver. The original, made of a gneissoid stone with small particles of black mica, was found in East Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts. The specimen was loaned by Mr. Rockwood, and a cast taken in the National Museum.

^[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] Warren K. Moorehead, Granville, Licking County, Ohio._[[/underline]] A cast of a perforated tablet of peculiar shape. The original, made of a compact black slate, was found near Fort Ancient, Warren County, Ohio. It was sent as a loan with two other specimens to the National Museum, where the cast was taken.

^[[blue check mark]] [[underline]] E. Palmer, U.S. National Museum._[[/underline]] Collection from ruins on the Rio Verde, Maricopa County, Arizona: Leaf-shaped implements, arrow-heads, grooved axes (since and double-edged), grooved mauls, hammer-stones, pestles, large pounding-stones, rubbing-stones, small and large metates, paint-mortars, paint-mullers, stones used in forming the bottom and side of clay vessles, polishing-stones, stone digging-tools, stone balls used in games, stone ring, shell pendants, beads, and gorgets, bone perforators, wooden club, clay vessels (plain and painted), and fragments of pottery; 198