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The west range is devoted to the Indians of CaUfornia, Oregon and 

 Washmgton, the Pueblo region, the southwest border States, Mexico, 

 Central America, and South America, of which last area a majority 

 of the grand ethnological divisions are represented. The family 

 groups are of the Sioux, the Hupa of California, the Zuni, the Hopi, 

 the Hopi snake dance, the Maya-Quiche, and the Patagonian. Two 

 large models of typical Hopi-Pueblo villages occupy bases in the center 

 of the haU, and interspersed among the exhibits here and elsewhere 

 are numerous small cases of the Kensington type, containing groups 

 of specimens of special interest, village group models, etc. 



At the northern end of the north wing is an important exhibition 

 of basketry. In four cases flanking the entrance to the art gallery 

 are arranged many examples of these most interesting and pleasing 

 objects of Indian skill and art, constituting a synopsis of the bas- 

 ketry work of the four regions of the world; while in the adjoining 

 alcove, between the stairs and elevators, is a larger collection com- 

 posed exclusively of American baskets, and containing type speci- 

 njens for all of North America. 



Old World archeology. — Embracing in its scope the antiquities of 

 Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, and the proximate islands, this 

 division possesses but a very inadequate representation of the mat- 

 ters which pertain to it. The Government has conducted no explo- 

 rations that would contribute to its resources, and the Museum itself 

 has had few opportunities for directing material its way. Neverthe- 

 less, it has succeeded in assembling a varied and, in many respects, 

 a most important collection, from which it has been possible to select 

 for exhibition a very considerable series of specimens both interest- 

 ing and instructive for the public. The space occupied is the elon- 

 gate hall on the west side of the light well in the second story of 

 the north wing, measuring about 187 feet 8 inches long by 31 feet 

 wide, and the entire outer end of the wing, furnishing an aggregate 

 of about 7,926 square feet of floor area. 



The classification is in two great sections, the first embracing the 

 culture of the so-called "historic nations," especially those settled 

 around the Mediterranean basin (Assyro-Babylonian, Egyptian, Syro- 

 Palestinian and Greco-Roman), from which our own civilization is 

 largely derived; the second, the diversified cultures of various peo- 

 ples, imperfectly or not at all represented in contemporary written 

 records. To the latter belongs the large body of artifacts and osse- 

 ous remains of man and of animals coeval with him in the very early 

 stages of his development, generally referred to as the prehistoric or 

 stone age. 



The installations are as follows: The alcove at the northern end of 

 the wing is mainly occupied by antiquities of Assyria and Egypt. 

 In the center is a large mosaic taken from the floor of a Roman 



