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Rau K7 upper June '87

[[underlined]] Report of the Operations in the Department of Antiquities, U.S. National Museum, during June, 1887. [[/underlined]]

Number of specimens entered in Record Book, for exhibition 392; for exchange 212.

[[underlined]] Specification of Additions.
Accession 18808. 
C. A. Harrington, Vinitaville, Goochland County, Virginia.- [[/underlined]]
Twenty spear-heads and 180 arrow-heads from Vinitaville; all for exchange.

[[underlined]] Accession 19026. [[/underlined]] [[red tick]]
[[underline]] W. E. Safford, U.S. Navy.- [[/underlined]] Collection from ancient graves near the beach of Arica, Peru: Eight flint dart-heads (four inserted in wooden stems, and representing the detachable parts of harpoons), a grooved stone sinker, 2 implements, a ladle, a small box with partitions and 5 pin-shaped objects, all of wood; a copper knife with wooden handle, 4 copper fish-hooks, one with line attached, a bone fish-hook with line and stone sinker, a fishing-line, 3 spines of cactus (?), one with a head of plaited rushes, a spindle with whorl and cord attached, 2 wooden combs (?), 2 toy mattresses made of sticks, a Pandeau pipe of small reeds,