MORMON HAND-CART TRAIN

As it passed through Southern Iowa, and onward over the plains of Nebraska, in 1846. Engraved from a drawing by George Simons, of Council Bluffs.

INDIAN POTTERY, BASKETS, ETC.

Three small jars or pots from old graves or mounds in Allamakee county, Iowa. W. W. Carpenter, Waukon, Iowa. Purchased.

A small Indian bowl. Mrs. Charles Aldrich, Boone, Iowa. Presented. Three unidentified polished stone implements from Allamakee county, Iowa. W. W. Carpenter, Waukon, Iowa. Purchased.

An unidentified polished stone implement from Lehigh, Webster county, Iowa. W. W. Carpenter, Waukon, Iowa. Purchased.

Two arrow straighteners, made from dark brown sandstone, from Allamakee county. W. W. Carpenter, Waukon, Iowa. Purchased.

Two pointed bone implements, probably used as needles. From Indian graves in Allamakee county. W. W. Carpenter, Waukon, Iowa. Purchased Four scrapers and one skinning knife. W. W. Carpenter, Waukon, Iowa. Purchased.

Stone ax from Warren county, Iowa. Rev. Father J. F. Kempker, Lacona, Iowa. Presented.

Jay Wells, Boone, Iowa.

Presented.

Presented.

Stone ax. Arrow point. Arthur Trebel, Burlington, Iowa. Forty-seven pieces (fragments) of Colorado Indian pottery, and 42 flint chips. Collected and presented by Charles Aldrich.

Part of what was doubtless a handsome stone adz. Collected at Abiquiu, N. M. (in 1875), by Charles Aldrich, and presented by him.

A stone implement, apparently a rough sort of combination of ax and maul. An interesting specimen. Wesley Myers, Boone, Iowa. Presented. Lower part of an Indian mill; a stone maul. Ward H. Hills, Des Moines, Iowa. Loaned.

Curious serrated arrow-point-a very interesting specimen. Erastus N. Lee, Little Valley, N. Y. Presented.

Clay pipe moulded from coarse, gravelly clay, and burned. It shows some rude attempts at carving. Collected near Franklin, Lee county, Iowa, in the vicinity of sundry ancient mounds, by T. Van Hyning, of Des Moines, Iowa, and by him presented to the Historical Department.

65,658. Basket of the Zuni Indians for fruit picking. Made of Yucca angustifolia in diagonal weaving. The pleasing effects on the surface are produced by showing alternately the outside and the inside of the split leaf. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

42,177. Basket tray of the Moki Indians.

Made of the split leaves

of the Yucca angustifolia in diagonal weaving. The colored effects on the outside are produced by the inner portion of the split leaf. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

11,256. Basket of the Pai Ute Indians. Made by coiling, coated with gum to make it water-tight. Collected by J. W. Powell.

Wallet of Esparta grass presented to the United States government at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, by the Spanish Commission. 14,738. Basket tray of the Ute Indians of Utah. Made for the purpose of winnowing seed. Collected by J. W. Powell.

42,114. Basket water jar of the Navajo Indians. Made in diagonal twined or wattled basketry dipped in hot pitch. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

83,984. Basket of the Moki Indians, for collecting fruit. Made in twined weaving showing all the different styles, diagonal, plain and three ply. This is a rare specimen. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

68,572. Basket of the Zuni Indians, for picking fruit. Made in common wicker work. This style of weaving is not common west of the Rocky mountains. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

165,117. Basket of the Choctaw Indians. Made of cane in diagonal weaving or plaiting. The black and yellow colors are produced by native dyes. New Orleans Exposition.

20,870. Wallet of the Thlinkit Indians. Made of spruce root. The wrinkled surface is produced by alternating plain weaving with twined weaving. The border is in plain twine, finished off with false braid. Collected by J. G. Swan.

68,536. Water-tight jar of the Zuni Indians. The body is a coiled basket or a basket made in a style called coiled ware. This is dipped in pitch which makes it water tight. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

20,887. Wallet of the Shegan Indians, Prince of Wales, Alaska. Made of split cedar bark in plain weaving, but looks like diagonal. Collected by J. G. Swan.

166,855. (2) Coiled trays of the Moki Indians. The foundation is a bundle of grass stalks. The sewing is done with split leaves of the Yucca. Baskets of this sort are always used for holding meal in their great festivals. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

166,821 and 166,362. Wicker trays of the Moki Indians of Arizona. Made of small shoots and regularly woven in twilled effect. Used to hold meal in their ceremonies. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

150,390. Small basket from the Samoan Islands. Made in a series of coiled plating resembling Japanese work. Collected by the Bureau of Ethnology.

76,563. Square basket from the Samoan Islands.

Bureau of Ethnology.

165,333. Mat of Pandanus leaves. Africa.

Collected by the

BIRDS.

Case of birds. A case containing 10 species of small mounted birds. Mrs. A. Rawson, Portland, Oregon. Presented.

Macaw (Ptittacus macoa-?). Scarlet and blue macaw. William H. Shepherd, Des Moines, Iowa. Presented.

The following birds were presented by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.: 145 specimens, representing 85 genera and 125 species and varieties, all handsomely mounted on tablets and labeled. This collection was secured through the kind efforts of Hon. D. B. Henderson, Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Larus delawarensis Ord. Ring-billed Gull.
Larus philadelphia Ord. Bonaparte's Gull.

Sterna maxima Bodd. Royal Tern.

Gelochelidon nilotica Hass. Gull-billed Tern.

Phæthon flavirostris Brandt. Yellow-billed Tropic Bird.

Rynchops nigra Linn. Black Skimmer.

Stercorarius parasiticus Linn. Parasitic Jaeger.

Colymbus auritus Linn. Horned Grebe.

Colymbus nigricollis californicus Heerm. American Eared Grebe.

Podilybus podiceps Linn. Pied-billed Grebe.

Alle alle Linn. Dovekie.

Spizella monticola Gmel. Tree Sparrow.

Spizella pusilla Wils. Field Sparrow.

Spizella socialis arizona Coues. Western Chipping Sparrow.

Harporhynchus redivivus Gamb.

California Thrasher.

Harporphynchus rufus Linn. Brown Thrasher.

Galeoscoptes carolinensis Linn. Catbird.

Mimus polyglottos Linn. Mocking-Bird.

Orscoptes montanus Towns. Sage Thrush.

Myadestes townsendii Aud. Townsend's Solitaire.

Campylorhyynchus brunniecapillus Lafr. Cactus Wren.