Relics Given Museum

RECENT GIFTS OF FOUR collections of American Indian basketry and pottery to the College Museum have added valuable and rare specimens to the Museum's collection of Indian handicrafts.

The collections presented to the Museum by Dartmouth alumni and friends of the College were: Mr. and Mrs. George H. Brown's collection of more than 500 specimens of Indian pottery, baskets and other items given by Miss Ellen A. Webster; fourteen rare pieces of Indian and Eskimo woodcarving and other arts collected by Lt. Col. A. T. Clifton and presented by A. T. Clifton Jr. '27; 104 specimens mostly rare old Indian baskets from all the basketry areas of North America given by Capt. H. L. Shuttleworth '35; and 91 Indian baskets chiefly from California and the North Pacific coast collected by Mrs. Ellen Burpee Farr and given by Mrs. Ida Farr Miller of Peterboro, N. H.

The Museum's collection of Indian material now totals nearly 4000 items and progress in preparing new displays continues despite the fact that the greater part of the staff's time is being devoted to teaching in the Navy V-12 program.

RARE INDIAN RELICS from the four collections recently presented to the College Museum. On the left, three fine examples of aboriginal woodcarving from Alaska, the masks from St. Michael and the frog bowl with mother of pearl inlaid eyes from the Aleutian Islands. On the right, miniature baskets made by California Indians. The smallest basket, a quarter of an inch in diameter, is a perfect specimen of coiled basketry technique.

ADMIRING A FINE EXAMPLE of California basketry, Curator W. W. Bowen stands before one of the Dartmouth Museum's new exhibits of American Indian material from collections just donated to it. The specimens are from all the basket-making areas of North America.