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man. P^thnography thu.s develops into an eminently liistorieal scienoe. 

 Maps, such as show the geographical distribution of the bow, etc., 

 explanatory sketches and photographs, contribute to a better under- 

 standing of the specimens. Such an arrangement is unusually 

 fascinating and suggestive, but it should not be without an adjoining 

 collection geographically installed. Only a great ethnographic nmse- 

 um like the Berlin Museum could carry out both classitications. A 

 very limited representation of this could formerly be seen in the 

 Dresden nephrite collection, and additional attempts have been made 

 in the collection of the East Asiatic Ceramics from the shores of the 

 Indian Ocean, as well as in the collection of ear and arm ornaments. 



Fig. 85. — University Museum, Oxford. (Pitt Rivers collection.) A corner of upper gallery. 



But imagine the great mass of ethnographic objects from all the 

 peoples of the earth arranged in this manner. To present an idea 

 of what this is I give below the principal groups of the .system, 

 the fundamental principles of which were laid down })y Pitt Rivers, 

 but which have since been developed by the present director. 11. Bal- 

 four. The small subdivisions num))er man}" hundreds. Pitt Rivers 

 originally had his (;ollection in his own private house (he was then 

 called Ijane Fox, only changing his name upon coming into his father's 

 estate), but as it increased he lent it to the Bethnal Green Museum in 

 London, a branch of the South Kensington Museum, where I saw it 

 in 187S. From there it was later transferred into the last-named 



