EXHIBIT AT PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 21 7 



Institution and installed with the special exhibit of the Institution. 

 They arc (1) engravings of twenty-four masterpieces of portraiture; 

 and (2) reproductions of twenty-four masterpieces of landscape and 

 figure painting. 



In addition to the exhibits displayed in the systematic scries along 

 with the other National Museum exhibits in the Government building, 

 the following exhibits were prepared for other departments of the 

 Exposition and lent to them during the continuance of the fair: 



1. Series of trephined skulls from Peru, lent to the Division of 

 Ethnology and Archaeology of the Exposition. 



2. Ten plaster busts of American Indians and Eskimo, lent to the 

 Division of Ethnology and Archaeology of the Exposition. 



3. Series of casts of type forms of Indian stone implements, lent to 

 the Division of Ethnology and Archaeology of the Exposition. 



4. Two lay figures of Sioux Indians, lent to the Indian Office 

 Exhibit, Interior Department. 



5. Lay figure of a Filipino girl, weaving at a loom, lent to the Gov- 

 ernment Commission of the Exposition and installed in the Philippine 

 exhibit, Government Building. 



It is not assumed that the exhibits described in the preceding pages 

 are completed. They are merely such as could he assembled, on the 

 plan adopted, within the six months allowed for the work. Maivy 

 changes and additions will be made when they are finally set up in the 

 National Museum. The lay figure groups will be enlarged to a uni- 

 form size, a series of casts illustrating physical types of the people 

 will be added, pictures will aid in completing the exhibit, and several 

 new series of objects will serve to widen the field covered. 



It is confidently expected that the completed exhibit will come more 

 nearly bringing within reach of the average person a full conception 

 of the native American race and its culture than any assemblage of 

 museum material yet made. 



Credit is due to a, numberof collaborators in the preparation of this 

 exhibit, to Prof. (). T. Mason, curator of ethnology, for his energy 

 in selecting and arranging the ethnological material and in the prepa- 

 ration of the series of labels, embodied largely in the present text; 

 and to Dr. Walter Hough, assistant ethnologist; to T. \Y. Sweeny for 

 competent service in arranging and mounting the several series of 

 artifacts; to C. R. Luscombe, modeler of the dwelling groups; to 

 Frank Lemon, H. J. Ellicott, and U. S. J. Dunbar, sculptors, for 

 skilful work in modeling the life-size figures; to Mrs. Kate C. Holmes 

 for lifelike coloration of the figures; to H. W. Hendley and C. E. 

 Johnson, builders of the lay figures, and especially to Mr. Hendley for 

 valued aid in setting up the groups. 



I was fortunate in securing a set of views of the lay figure groups 

 and of nearly all the other exhibits. The work was done by two of 



