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^[[ [[underlined]]1896-97[[/underlined]] ]]  

2.  Name ,in the order of their importance , the accessions of the year which deserve  [[underlined]]special notice,[[/underlined]]  and state in each case whether given, lent, received in exchange or purchased.

STEINER, DR. ROLAND (Grovetown, Ga.):   Large collection (10408 specimens) from am aboriginal  village site on the Kiokee Creek, Columbia Co., Ga., consisting of nuclei or cores, leaf-shaped implements, knives, scrapers, perforators, arrow- and spear-heads of flint, white quartz, rhyolite and schist;  drilled tablets, ceremonial objects, sinkers or pendants of hematite, egg-shaped objects (truncated), hammer-stones, pitted stones, perforated sinkers of soap-stone, paint mortars, some of hematite;  cone-shaped mullers, rubbing stones, fragments of soapstone vessels, grooved axes, polished hatchets, and fragments of pottery.  (30976, 31050, 31235, 31237, 31258, 31311, 31313, 31347, 31484, 31497, 31541, 31931, and 32214).  [[underlined]]Deposit[[/underlined]].

BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY (thro' Maj. J. W. Powell, Director):   The Hilder collection of antiquities from mounds and stone graves in Missouri and Illinois.   This consists principally of pottery bowls and vases;  in addition there are a number of stone implements (mostly surface finds in the same locality) including hammers, grooved axes, polished hatchets, pestles, rubbing stones, discoidal stones, small stone pendants, plummets and carvings (one from a mound represents a tortoise).  There are also chipped flint hatchets, arrow- and spear-heads, scrapers, etc., and a nucleus or core, and flakes of obsidian.   Among ^[[the]] shell objects are engraved discs and beads, ^[[and]] a small bone carving representing a female figure. [[strikethrough]]should also be mentioned[[/strikethrough]].   The objects of shell and bone are from mounds and stone graves.   Six human skulls from a mound in Mississippi Co. Mo., were received.   A number of terra-cotta figures from the ancient city of Teotihuacan, Mexico. (31883)   342 objects, [[underline]]Purchased[[underline]]. ^[[(?]]

U. S. FISH COMMISSION (Washington, D. C.):   Collection of 44 archaeologic objects found while excavating for fish ponds at the U.S.Fish Comm.Station at San Marcos, Texas:  Pointed stone implements (polishers?), small pitted stone, drilled ceremonial object of red jasper (banner-stone), bone perforators, shell ornaments, yellow ochre used as paint, fragments of human bones (partially silicified), animal teeth and bones and small fossil shells.  (31009 - 17 objects, and 31167 - 27 objects).  [[underlined]] Gift[[/underlined]].