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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 15M«. 



The ethnology of South America is iliustnited l)v extensive collec- 

 tions from Colombia, Venezuela, British Guiana, and the region of 

 the Gran Chaco; the prehistoric, by similar ones from Colombia, 

 Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. Melanesia is the best represented in the 

 South Sea division. Asia is at present represented from its eastern 

 coast alone; the Korea collection is especially t^ood; Java and Ceylon 

 also offer some very notable objects used for theatrical and dramatic 

 performances. Africa is I'epresented ouly by special regions, such as 

 the Congo basin and Portuguese Southwest Africa." In European 

 archeology there are shown many reproductions of the bronzes in the 



Naples Museum, as well as 

 bronzes and wall decora- 

 tions from Boscoreale and 

 (irecian, Roman, Etruscan, 

 and Ph(i?nician originals. 

 Al)out a thousand objects 

 from the Swiss lake dwell- 

 ings are shown, and some 

 also from prehistoric Eng- 

 liind. I can not, however, 

 begin to enumerate all. 



The section of transpor- 

 tation is given a prominent 

 place, and one may sav that 

 no age and no land has been 

 disregarded. It l)egins by 

 showing how prin:'itive 

 peoples carry their chil- 

 dren and their goods, shows 

 all sorts of litters, pack ani- 

 mals, and other beasts of 

 burden, carriages with 

 solid and spoke wheels, and 

 at last illustrates the entire 

 development of the locomotive. It is impossible to touch upon every 

 thing in a linuted space. The peoples of America from Alaska to 

 Brazil are especially well represented. So, also, the development of 

 railway travel, shown with great completeness, is of historic interest. 

 Serial cards indicate how the railways of America have increased 

 every ten years. The water and wagon transportation is also shown 

 in just as complete a manner. One may see a "Scythian"' cart 



«See also P. Ehrenreieh's detailed description of this portion of the Museum in 

 the Zfitschrift fi'ir Ethnologie, 1900, pp. 18-2S, and G. A. Dorsey's paper, the Dejiart- 

 ment of Anthropology of the Field (yohnul)ian Museum — a Review of Six Years, 

 American Anthropuhgist, n. s., II, 1900, j)p. 247-265. 



Fig. 39.— Field Columbian Museum, ncrlwrimn ca.se 



