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The National Museum of American Indian's Native Artist Fellowship Program is discussed. The works of the artists selected for the program are highlighted.

The contents and details of The Matches Sketchbook, a book having contributions from several Native American artists of warrior societies are discussed. Other examples of Native American art are described.

The article discusses the acquisition of ethnological collection by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's American Section from groups who inhabit the Amur River delta. Topics discussed include use of fish skin to create the articles of clothing by Amur delta people, a mission sent by the museum to China and Siberia for the collection of commercial intelligence and samples of raw materials and appointment of Franz Boas to the Jessup North Pacific Expedition.

The article offers information about a beaver bowl which was collected by Judge George Turner in Illinois during the research project conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and is the oldest antiquity in the American section of the museum.

Examines Walrus ivory objects found among the Inupiaq-speaking Bering Strait Eskimo of Northern Alaska. Religious and ceremonial manifestations of Eskimo Art; Historical significance of the Ivory buttons; University of Pennsylvania Museum's purchase of the Ivory buttons in 1915.