Peabody Museum.

A very valuable collection has recently been presented to the Peabody Museum by the heirs of David Kimball. This collection, which for many years was on exhibition at the Boston Museum, consists of Indian relics and curios obtained by Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers about the year 1804. Chief among the curiosities are buffalo robes decorated according to the art of the times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration which was long ago superseded by bead work. In addition to these there is a collection of pipes, among which are four calumets or sacred pipes of peace, and some eagle feathers of the kind usually worn at peace councils. The tribes of Indians represented in the collection are the Algonquins, the Sioux, the Seminoles and the Choctaws.