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Archipelago, 102; and 33 hall labels. The Division of Printing also sup- 

 plied 75 case numbers, 1,140 catalogue cards, and 5,500 index cards. 



The number of photographs mounted in albums is 1,026. Five 

 new albums were opened. To the label file 1,289 cards were added. 



Assistant Curator Albert B. Lewis is preparing an index of material 

 which is on exhibition in Joseph N. Field Hall (Hall A). 



Assistant Curator "Wilfrid D. Hambly devoted much time to 

 classifying photographs secured by Miss Malvina Hoffman while 

 fulfilling her commission to sculpture representative types of races. 



installations and rearrangements — ANTHROPOLOGY 



The department has continued its work of installing new collec- 

 tions and of modernizing the older exhibits. Many old-style black 

 labels have been replaced with shorter, more interesting statements 

 printed on buff cards in black type. Ninety-seven cases were in- 

 stalled during the year. 



In Stanley Field Hall a case of attractive scarfs such as are 

 worn by all castes of Hindu women; a case of Peruvian textiles; and 

 a case of rare and decorative lacquered wooden vessels from Peru 

 have been placed on exhibition. 



During the year, eleven more sculptures in bronze, the work of 

 Miss Malvina Hoffman, have been added to Chauncey Keep 

 Memorial Hall (Hall 3). These additions comprise heads or busts 

 of a Berber, an Alpine Austrian, a Zulu woman, a Turk, a Toda, 

 a Pueblo woman, a Jicarilla Apache, a Carib, a Korean, a Bontoc 

 Igorot, and a life-size figure of a Navaho. 



Assistant Curator Henry Field installed, also in Chauncey Keep 

 Hall, seven cases of exhibits in physical anthropology. These show 

 physical characters of various races; differences in hair forms; types 

 of deformation and tattooing practised by various peoples; trepan- 

 ning as practised by primitive peoples, and endocranial casts of 

 various races and mammals; casts of hands and feet of different 

 races; skeletons of anthropoid apes and man (for comparative 

 purposes); and skeletons of the principal human races. The ten 

 skeletons used were prepared by Assistant Curator Edmond N. 

 Gueret, osteologist in the Department of Zoology. 



An exhibit illustrating the Douglass method of dating prehistoric 

 buildings of the Southwest by means of a tree-ring chronology was 

 installed in Hall 7 by Assistant Curator Martin. This exhibit is of 

 particular interest to many people because it shows how the tree- 

 ring calendar was built up and how an ancient wooden roof beam is 



