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...report goes on to describe the acquisitions during the year. Although many of these have been received from Boston museums, valuable gifts have come also from private individuals. Perhaps the most important accession has been the Niven collection of human crania, pottery, and stone implements from Mexico presented by Miss Mary L. Ware...
...important acquisition has been made recently by the Peabody Museum of a collection of Mexican antiques, which have been taken from excavations at Zumpango and Tecomaxochill. The collection consists of Crania, pottery, stone implements, soap stone vessels and small human effigies, one of which is a remarkably fine specimen. There are also beads of gadeite and shell, stone pendants and car ornaments, and rude figures of stone, fashioned from discarded axes...