202 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



The family groups and other lay figures included in the present 



exhibit are such as could be brought together in the short period 

 allotted for preparation, and represent the following tribes: 



1. North Greenland Eskimo. 



2. Eastern Eskimo. 



3. Alaskan Eskimo. 



4. Chilkat Indians, Alaska. 



5. Hupa Indians, California. 



G. Sioux Indians, the Great Plains. 



7. Navaho Indians, the arid region. 



8. Zuni Indians, the arid region. 



!>. Cocopa Indians, Sonora, Mexico. 

 10. Maya-Quiche Indians, Guatemala. 

 11a. Zapotec Indian woman, Oaxaca, Mexico. 

 lib. Jivaro Indian man, Brazil, 

 lie. Piro Indian man, Brazil. 

 12. Tehuelche Indians, Patagonia. 



Exhibits 2, 3, and 11 of this series were not completed as family 

 groups and remain assemblages of independent figures simply. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUPS. 



The first exhibit of the series (Plate 23), beginning at the north, shows 

 an Eskimo family of Smith Sound, northwestern Greenland. These 

 are the most northern inhabitants of the world known. On account 

 of the prevalence of ice the year round they make little use of the 

 kaiak, or skin boat, employed so constantly by the more southern 

 Eskimo, using the dog sled for transportation. Their clothing is of 

 skins of the seal, reindeer, birds, and dogs, and their houses are often 

 built of snow. Their activities are nearly all associated with the mere 

 struggle for existence. 



This group represents a family as it might appear in the spring, 

 moving across the ice fields. The young man has succeeded in club- 

 bing a small seal, and having called on the sledge party to haul it 

 home is laughed at by the elder man, who tells him lie should have 

 carried it on his back. 



This episode is chosen with the view of illustrating the noteworthy 

 fact that these farthest-north people are exceptionally cheerful in dis- 

 position, notwithstanding the rigor of the climate and the hardships 

 of their life. The woman, who carries a babe in her hood, is about to 

 help attach the seal to the sledge, and the girl, who plays with the dogs, 

 and the boy, who clings to the back of the sledge, are not insensible to 

 the pleasantries of the occasion. 



In the scond exhibit (Plate 21) three south Greenland figures take 

 the place of the family group, which could not be completed in time. 



