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the Board, Mr. J. C. Boykin as assistant to the chairman, Mr. T. J. 

 Taylor as disbursing officer and Mr. K. E. Shannon as transportation 

 agent. 



For the " purpose of inaugurating, installing, maintaining and re- 

 turning said Government exhibits, together with all other necessary 

 expenses of every kind connected therewith " Congress appropriated 

 the sum of $500,000, of which amount the Smithsonian Institution 

 was allotted $23,750 for the preparation and maintenance of its 

 exhibit, besides 6,200 square feet of floor space in the Liberal Arts 

 Palace. In this connection Mr. W. de C. Ravenel, administrative 

 assistant of the National Museum, was appointed by the Secretary 

 of the Institution the representative of that establishment and of its 

 several governmental branches, and after consultation with the Gov- 

 ernment Board, it was decided to devote the greater part of the avail- 

 able funds to the presentation of ethnological subjects. 



The most prominent features of this ethnological exhibit are four 

 large family groups, patterned after those so well known to visitors 

 to the National Museum but specially prepared for the exposition. 

 They represent typical tribes in four widely separated regions, 

 namely, the western or Alaskan Eskimo, which, on account of the 

 better food supply and the milder climate, have advanced farther 

 than their relatives in the East; the Zulu-Kaffir which, with the re- 

 lated Bantu tribes, live in the semi-arid southern extremity of the 

 African continent; the Caribs of the interior of British Guiana, 

 South America ; and the Dyaks who live along the rivers of the in- 

 terior of the Island of Borneo. The figures for these were modeled 

 by Mr. U. S. J. Dunbar, sculptor, of Washington. Next comes a 

 series of dwelling groups, reproduced in miniature, illustrating the 

 architecture and village life of the western Eskimo, the Zulus, the 

 Caribs, the Dyaks, the Jamamadi Indians of western Brazil, the 

 Aino of the Island of Yezo, Japan, the early Hawaiians, the Navaho 

 Indians of New Mexico and Arizona, the Chippewa Indians of the 

 Lake Superior region, the Iroquois Indians of northern New York, 

 and the Seminole Indians of Florida. In 16 cases are installed sev- 

 eral hundred original objects obtained from the Indians and repre- 

 senting the arts, industries, domestic life, sports, etc., of the Eskimo, 

 mainly of Alaska, the tribes of the northwest coast of North Amer- 

 ica, the South American tribes, including those of British Guiana, 

 the Panam.a Indians, the Africans, the Dyaks of Borneo and the 

 tribes of New Guinea. Supplementing the above are many photo- 

 graphic enlargements, and pictures of other kinds ; and additional to 

 it are several synoptical series of objects, illustrating the history of 

 fire making and illumination, of the jackknife, of the saw, of the 

 spindle, of the shuttle, of the hafted stone ax and the perforated 

 stone ax. 



