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Tribes of Mexico and Central America 639 



Seri Indian hunter 039 



Woman of Chiapas, southern Mexico 640 



Family group of the Maya-Quiche Indians 640 



Tribes of South America 640 



Dwelling group of the Carib Indians, British Guiana 641 



Family group of the Caribs 641 



Dwelling group of the Goajiros Indians 642 



Dwelling group of the Jamamadi Indians 642 



Jivaro Indian chief 642 



Dwelling group of the Tehuelche Indians 643 



Family group of the Tehuelche Indians 643 



Tribes of Africa 044 



Dwelling sroup of the Zulu, South Africa 644 



Family group of the Zulu-Kaffir, South Africa 645 



Zulu chief 645 



Berber man 645 



Ghadames girl (Hamitic family) 645 



Somali man 646 



Bambara man 646 



Wachaga man 646 



Wolof man 647 



Tribes of Malaysia 047 



Dwelling group of the Dyaks „ 647 



Family group of the Dyaks 648 



Dyak man 648 



Family group of the Bontoc Igorot, Philippine Islands 648 



Family group of the Filipinos, Luzon, Philippine Islands 649 



Family group of the Negritos 649 



Tribes of Polynesia 650 



Dwelling group of the Samoans, Samoan Islands, South Pacific 651 



Family group of the Samoan Islanders 651 



Village group of the early Hawaiians 652 



Maori man 652 



Tribes of Papua, Australia, and other primitive types 653 



Papuan man 053 



Australian man, Clarence River, Australia 053 



Veddah man and woman, Ceylon, India 054 



Tribes of Asia 054 



Mongol man, Mongolia 655 



Tibetan man, Tibet 655 



Dwelling group of the Aino, Island of Yezo, Japan 655 



Aino man and woman 655 



Korean man 050 



Arab man, Arabia 656 



INTRODUCTION. 



During the early years of the development of lay-figure groups 

 as a means of illustrating primitive peoples, single figures were con- 

 structed for the display of costumes and other belongings, and in 

 time two or more of the figures were assembled in groups. These 

 figures were often rather crudely executed, but were much approved 

 by the public of the period. On the accession of Prof. W. H. Holmes 

 to the head curatorship of the newly constituted department of 

 anthropology in 1898, renewed interest was awakened in this branch 

 of the work. Professor Holmes brought to this work exceptional 

 artistic training, a keen appreciation of the requirements of exacti- 

 tude, and the faculty of enlisting the interest of others in the tasks 

 in hand. The family groups here illustrated are largely the product 

 of his genius, and the later examples are regarded as serving well the 

 purposes of science and at the same time as fulfilling the require- 

 ments of art. 



The designing of these groups and directing their preparation and 

 installation was a difficult and exacting task, but one in which Pro- 

 fessor Holmes had the hearty cooperation of his associates. Able 

 sculptors were enlisted in the work of modeling the figures, among 



