REPORT OF THE SECRETARY: NATIONAL MUSEUM 89 



Alaska, and from California and New Mexico. A series of 262 

 photographs of Filipinos came from Dr. R. B. Bean. 



Two accessions were received in the section of musical instruments ; 

 7 (378 specimens) in the section of ceramics, including 80 pieces of 

 older glass and pottery and 143 pieces of Irish and American Belleek 

 ware; and 8 (141 specimens) in art textiles, including noteworthy 

 embroideries and laces. 



INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS 



New exhibits were arranged for each of the major exhibition halls 

 assigned to ethnology. South American exhibits were enriched by a 

 large collection of Chama pottery from a group once believed not to 

 practice pottery manufacture. The collection shows them to be the 

 equal of the Coneba in producing a tliin-walled, creamy-textured 

 ware. This and three additional exhibit units resulting from the 

 Latin-American expedition to eastern Ecuador have been installed. 

 Material included is from various groups of Jivaro and comprises 

 blowguns, looms and weaving apparatus, woven textiles, decorated 

 pottery, and potterymaking implements, objects of personal adorn- 

 ment, and various objects representing decadent stages in the art of 

 head-hunting. Mexican folk pottery and examples of the folk arts 

 of Alexican, Nicaraguan, and Guatemalan peoples were assembled 

 to form a new exhibit in the Mexican alcove. Tliis includes textiles, 

 wood carving, model figures in wax, and objects of personal adorn- 

 ment. The Colombian and Panamanian exhibits were improved 

 through the addition of the W. W. Archer Choco collection and the 

 M. W. Stirling Tule and Choco material. 



A case was arranged to show liistorical Indian sculpture from 

 modern Indian tribes. Masks and figurine carvings in wood collected 

 by Gibbs, Stuckley, and Wilkes from tribes of the Columbia Valley 

 and the Pacific Northwest are shown, as well as a portrait bust of 

 himself modeled by the Ute, Chief Shem, and the famous Haida 

 slate carving known as the "Bear Mother." 



During the year the division of archeology concentrated its 

 efforts on complete revision of the hall devoted to Old World pre- 

 history. An important feature is the synoptic series, portraying 

 diagrammatically the cultural evolution of man in relation to geo- 

 logical events, from Pliocene times to the period of modern civiliza- 

 tion, and including type artifacts, charts showing environmental 

 conditions, and water-color sketches suggesting characteristic human 

 activities and industries of the successive periods. Other major 

 exhibits installed deal with the following cultures: Eolithic, pre- 

 Chellean, Chellean, Acheulian, Micoqicn, Mousterian, Aurignacian, 

 Magdalenian, Azilian, Final Capsian, Maglemosian, the Proto- 



