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material were installed. This completes the rearrangement of the 

 hall. One new case contains a representative collection from Rennell 

 and Bellona Islands, including arrows and spears with sharp slender 

 points of human bone, finely carved clubs, baskets, bags, mats, 

 pillows, clothing, ornaments of various kinds, and some remarkable 

 heavy wooden shark hooks. The other new case contains material 

 from the Santa Cruz group, including the outlying island of Anuda. 

 Of special interest are tortoise-shell ornaments and a loom on which 

 ornamented bags and mats were woven. 



In some of the reinstalled cases is shown material from the 

 Admiralty Islands, including coiled baskets and oil vessels, finely 

 carved wooden bowls, ornamented wooden beds, and large signal 

 drums. Other reinstalled cases contain New Guinea material such 

 as carved figures representing human beings, masks, ornamented 

 canoe prows, and drums, beautifully decorated earthen bowls and 

 pots, ornamented wooden bowls, a house ladder, carved wooden 

 pillows, a drying box, and various other household objects. 



An exhibit called The Ancestry of Man was installed at the 

 entrance to the Hall of the Stone Age of the Old World (Hall C) 

 by Mr. Bryan Patterson, Assistant in Paleontology. This exhibit, 

 based on data obtained from Dr. W. K. Gregory, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, is designed to show the 

 relation of mankind to other primates, and particularly the inter-rela- 

 tionships of the various living and extinct races of the human family. 



Seventeen newly installed cases of African ethnological material 

 have been placed in Halls D and E. Most of the objects shown in 

 these were collected by Assistant Curator Wilfrid D. Hambly, as 

 leader of the Frederick H. Rawson-Field Museum Ethnological 

 Expedition to West Africa (1929-30). Hall D now contains objects 

 from west and central Africa only. The collection from Cameroon 

 still occupies most of the north side of the hall, and several cases 

 displaying leather goods, weaving, pottery, and metal work have 

 been added. On the south side of Hall D, four cases showing weapons 

 and raffia weaving from the Congo region, and six cases illustrating 

 the arts, handicrafts, occupations, and magical rites of the tribes of 

 Angola (Portuguese West Africa) have been installed. 



Near the middle of Hall E, two cases of material from the Kabyles 

 and Tuareg of north Africa have been placed on exhibition. Blankets 

 and clothing woven by Kabyle women are the gift of Mr. Homer E. 

 Sargent, of Pasadena, California. The Kabyle jewelry was presented 

 by Miss Barbara Neff, of Chicago. Several musical instruments of 



