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collections. The specimens themselves are now sadly warped and 

 shriveled. But happily some of them can be fairly restored by treat- 

 ment with preservatives ; and happily also, our photographs, drawings 

 and paintings, and casts, made in the field, are almost equal for studj- 

 to what the originals were when found. Thus, after tlie original series is 

 arranged and exhibited here in the Museum of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and after a duplicate but representative series is displayed in the 

 National Museum at Washington, further comparative study of them 

 will be possible, and through this study the ancient key dwellers as 

 a people, the story even of their modes of daily life, will become known 

 to us so fully as to make it almost like unto one which might be told 

 of a living people. And were it possible now, I would fain present 

 a picture of tlus olden life on our shores — so remotely pre-Cohimbian 

 and so truly primitive — since I am sure that with the materials at hand 

 it could even now be made more perfect and detailed than any relating 

 to a period equally remote, that has thus far been possible. Certainly 

 it could be so made when aided, not only l)y comparative study of 

 the works of such peoples as, let us say the Arawaks of Brazil and 

 the Orinoco, but also, of the early historic records. Still, I shall 

 have to content myself — and perhaps it is just as well, since this 

 will give time for carrying the details of such study much further — 

 with presenting a picture of the kind in the final, fully and amply illus- 

 trated volume of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition, which Major Powell 

 has so liberly consented — as a joint work of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Department of 

 Archaeology and Palaeontology of the University of Pennsylvania — to 

 publish. 



