36 KEPOKT OF XATIOXAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



Elkins. A dress of white satin elaborately trimmed with mica 

 spangles and mother-of-pearl beads, worn by Mrs. John W. Foster, 

 of "Washington, while with her husband, the Hon. John T\". Foster, 

 on a special mission to Eussia in 1897, was lent by Mrs. Foster. A 

 large and interesting collection of bonnets of the 19th century, of 

 various shapes, sizes, and colors, was received as a loan from Mrs. 

 H. Kirk Porter, of "Washington. 



Exhibition and p7'eparation of specimens. — The general work of 

 preparation of specimens for the exhibition and reserve series was in 

 charge of Mr. "W. H. Egberts, under the supervision of the head 

 curator. It comprised a wide range of activities, including the care 

 and repair of specimens, the making of replicas, the modeling, cast- 

 ing and painting of new exhibits, the installation of lay-figure 

 groups, etc. The principal new exhibits prepared, with a certain 

 amount of outside help, comprised three lay-figure industrial groups 

 consisting of two life-size figures each, illustrating the mining and 

 quarrying industries of the aborigines. The figures and molds were 

 in part made hj Mr. U. S. J. Dunbar, sculptor, and were painted, 

 costmned, and set up, with appropriate gi-oundwork and fittings, by 

 the laborator}^ force. These groups represented, respectively, work 

 in a soapstone mine on Santa Catalina Island, Cal., the operation of 

 an iron and paint mine in Missouri, and the working of a copper 

 mine on Isle Eoyale, Mich. Seventeen full-length lay-figures were 

 also modeled by Mr. Dunbar, and painted and costumed in the labo- 

 ratory, for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Five of these figures 

 belong to a family group of Carib Indians of British Guiana, 6 to a 

 family group of the Dyaks of Borneo, and 6 to a family group of 

 the Zulu-Kaffirs of South Africa. A group of 7 figures illustrating 

 the Eskimo of Alaska was likewise prepared for the exposition. 



At the close of the year the enlargement and remodeling of the 

 Bontoc-Igorot family group, the Kiowa family group, and the 

 Cocopa family group were in progress, and 2 figures designed for 

 the Maya stone- working group, modeled by Mr. Dunbar and finished 

 in the laboratory, were being installed. During October, 1911, a 

 photographer spent several daj^s in the laboratory taking motion 

 pictures of the making of life masks, and the finishing, painting, 

 etc., of lay figures, for the Government exhibit at the Panama- 

 Pacific Exposition. 



Explorations. — Xo important explorations were undertaken, 

 though Mr. Xeil M. Judd. aid in the division of ethnology, con- 

 ducted limited archeological investigations in western Utah under 

 the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology. His examina- 

 tion of several mounds appears to indicate the former occupation of 

 the region by a pre-Pueblan people of comparatively simple culture. 



