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labeling of the specimens, but the preparation of additional altars. 

 As a result the two halls contain an unrivaled collection of Hopi 

 ethnological material ; the following altars : Snake, Flute, Antelope, 

 Powalawu, Katcina, Powamu, Marau, Ooqolto, Soyal ; the Ballulu- 

 konti screen ; and the following groups : House group of five figures, 

 Rabbit hunter, Hemis and Ana Katcinas of two figures each, with two 

 figures in the Soyal altar scene, and one in the Ooqolto altar case. 

 In the work of installation the year has been productive of much that 

 is of a progressive nature, and one feature of the work is character- 

 istic of the more recent trend of development in the Museum as a 

 whole. Allusion is made to the fact that Halls 8 and 9, which since 

 the establishment of the Museum have contained the material trans- 

 ferred from the exposition and known as Columbus Memorial, have 

 been emptied of their contents and are now being installed with 

 purely anthropologic collections. Hall 9, one of the four largest in 

 the building, is already installed with the Egyptian collections, while 

 Hall 8 and the hall made vacant by the transfer of the Egyptian col- 

 lection are to be devoted to the continually increasing collections 

 illustrating the culture of the more primitive non-American races. 

 The two halls devoted to the ethnology of the northwest coast of 

 America have also been dismantled, the collections having been care- 

 fully examined and the objects compared with collectors' original 

 lists, and have been reinstalled in new cases in the same halls, to 

 which will be added four ethnic groups, for which casts have already 

 been made, illustrating certain phases of the domestic and religious 

 life of this very interesting and complicated region." The Curator of 

 the Department of Geology reports as follows : " The large piles of 

 loose ore which formerly occupied the floor of Hall 72 have been 

 removed. In their place a large central case and two pyramids have 

 been substituted. A wall case has also been put in position against 

 the north wall. The large ore specimens formerly piled along the 

 walls have been installed in these cases and upon the pyramids, thus 

 giving the hall a much neater appearance and insuring protection of 

 the specimens. Thorough identification and cleaning of the speci- 

 mens has been performed in connection with their reinstallation. A 

 large wall case for the accommodation of specimens formerly piled 

 along the wall has been added to Hall 79, and all of the specimens in 

 the hall except a few of the largest are now neatly cased. Several of 

 the collections in the hall have been rearranged to secure better 

 lighting and more orderly grouping, and the specimens have been 

 re-identified and cleaned. The collection of rocks and fossils accom- 

 panying petroleum, Hall 71, has been rearranged, some new material 



