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G [[check mark]] K7 upper July 86 [[double underlined]] Rau [[/double underlined]] S 55692

[[stamp: Smithsonian Institution Divisional Correspondence Received Aug. 5 - .86]]

[[underlined]] Report on the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during July, 1886. [[/underlined]]

Number of specimens entered in Record-Book 676, in Loan-Book 4. 

[[underlined]] Specification of Additions.[[/underlined]]
[[underlined]]Accession 17619. [[/underlined]] [[check mark]]
[[underlined]]W.W. Blake, Kansas City, Missouri._ [[/underlined]] The Fischer collection of Mexican antiquities, consisting of obsidian flakes and cores, arrow and spear-heads of obsidian, flint and chalcedony, a large cutlass-shaped weapon or implement of obsidian, polished celts and chisels, polishing-tools, pendants of chalcedony, obsidian and other materials, some in the shape of human and animal figures and heads, labrets of obsidian and rock-crystal, spool-shaped objects of obsidian, a large number of stone beads (partly of jade), mirrors of iron pyrites, a small skull carved in rock-crystal, stone carvings in human and animal forms (a number consisting of jade), face-masks (human) of serpentine, steatite, white marble and obsidian, a carved box with lid (of volcanic stone), an ornamented stone cylinder, 16 inches in diameter, probably part of a column, copper or bronze objects, embracing celts, chisels, awls, needles, bells, T-shaped objects and a small human head. Further, clay spindle-whorls, [[strikethrough]] clay [[/strikethrough]] vessels of various forms (plain and ornamented), a pipe, musical instruments, figurines (human) and a number of stamps; 633 specimens.  The objects composing this most valuable collection were entered, but are not yet marked.