606 SUMMARY OF PEOfiRESS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 



Every teclinical, artistic, industrial thought that had ever entered 

 luiman minds could be seen in their primitive or in their most eloquent 

 expression. From the rude human habitations about the anthropo- 

 logical building to the results of co-operative architectural dreams which 

 constituted the White City, was a long way on the road of evolution in 

 the builder's art. The same would be true of the arts of dress, adorn- 

 ment, food, rest, transportation, manipulation, and manufacture, com- 

 merce and exchange, heating and illumination, mechanics and mechan- 

 ical forces. 



The forlorn savage woman depicted on the <loorway of the Transpor- 

 tation building at one end of a series of weary burden bearers was in 

 strange contrast with the spirituelle paintings of angels on the walls 

 above her head. But this was only one of a series of transformations 

 which made the Chicago Exposition the most imposing anthropological 

 exhibit the world has ever seen. The financial panic that seized the 

 world i)revented many thousands of scholars from stndying the exposi- 

 tion and put back the science of man quite as nuich as it did his mate 

 rial progress. 



Professor Putnam's dc^partment of the Plxposition included all sub- 

 divisions of anthropology. It embraced (1) the ethnographical exhibition 

 of native American peoples living in their native habitations on the 

 grounds; (2) a general ethnographic exhibit in the building; (3) an 

 archa'ological exhibit in the building and casts of ruins in Yucatan 

 shown outside; (4) exhibit of aiu'ient religions, folklore, and games; 

 (5) anthropological laboratories devoted to physical anthropology, crimi- 

 nal anthropology, psychology, and neurology with apparatus and dia- 

 grams; ((>) an anthropological library in all branches of the science. 



The anthropological exhibit of the Government was devoted (1) espe- 

 cially to showing the relation of the material activities of North America 

 to the linguistic classitication that had been recently completed; (2) to 

 the exi)osition of the recent explorations made by Prof William H. 

 Holmes in quarry sites of the aborigines in various portions of the 

 Union. This was done in a most creditable manner; (3) a synoptical 

 view of the early history of mankind from the earliest stone age to the 

 first iron age, set out by Professor Thomas Wilson. 



Of great i)ublic interest among the foreign exhibits were the armor 

 in the German village, the gold work from Colombia, the Turkish and 

 theCairene bazaar, the Java village, the Samoan village, the Dahomey 

 village, the Japanese and the Hindoo bazaars. Indeed, only an ex- 

 tended catalogue will reveal the riches of the material. 



Current literature. — Very frequent inquiries are made by those who 

 wish to look up some special question or to begin some new study in 

 anthropology. It is no longer i)()ssible to prepare for this summary a 

 creditable bibliogra])hy in the space assigned; but it is also not 

 necessary. Students who have access to the following publications 



