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...from Mr. Louis H. Farlow a large and comprehensive collection of household utensils, stone tools and dishes, fishing nets, games, weapons, and ceremonial objects, illustrating the art and customs of the Karok Indians of the Upper Klamath River in Northern California and of the Tolowa Indians of the same region. This is probably the most complete collection of old material in the country, comprising over 400 specimens...
Doctor Hamilton Rice '98, of Boston, who has just returned from an eighteen months' trip to the headwaters of the Rio Negro, in Colombia, has presented the Peabody Museum a valuable collection of ethnological material which he obtained from the natives of the region around the upper Uaupes River. The collection includes dance costumes, feather headdresses, rattles, whistles, drums and other paraphernalia used in their dances and ceremonies, blow guns with poisoned arrows, ordinary bows and arrows, ceremonial staffs used for carrying the head of the enemy, and various household objects such as wooden seats, hammocks, baskets...
...given in the mountains of Montana during the summer of 1908. The party, under the leadership of Dr. G. R. Mansfield '04, will reach Bozeman, Montana, early in July, and, after securing equipment, will spend five weeks in the study of geological and geographical features of the mountain region to the south and southwest...
...largest and most important collection received by the Museum this year is from Mr. Thomas Barbour '06 and consists of objects and utensils from New Dutch Guinea, a region hitherto unrepresented. Mr. Lewis H. Farlow, who has given many specimens during the last six years, has contributed relies of the Pacific Coast Indians. Among other additions are those made by Dr. L. C. Jones and Mr. C. B. Moore '73. The collection of photographs has been enriched by the addition of over 130 prints. The funds of the institution have been used for expeditions as well as for purchase...
...result of a talk by the Rev. Joseph Clark That Astounded and shocked an audience in the Living Room of the Union last evening, a pettion against the fearful atrocities that are now being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting...