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be placed in one or more of the side halls in suitable relationship with 

 the centra] exhibits, which would consist of the systematic ethnic col- 

 lections of that area. 



The floor plan of the installation proposed above appears in tig. 3. 

 The arrangement of halls suggested is probably as good as can be 

 derived for general culture-anthropology exhibits. 



It may be asked whether some other arrangement of geo-ethnic or of 

 other simple ethnic units may not afford superior facilities for examin- 



Fig. 3. — Floor plan of a large geo-ethnic exhibit showing overflow into lateral halls C, C, One full- 

 sized familygroup and two auxiliary lay-figure groups are provided for besides a large number of 

 auxiliary exhibits. 



ing the whole field of anthropological phenomena. If, for example, 

 exhibits illustrating the various groups of peoples in the world should 

 be assembled according to grade of culture rather than with respect to 

 geographical order, the lowest group taking first place and the others 

 following according to culture status, would not the survey of the 

 tield be easily and advantageously made? Would one not be able 

 through this arrangement, employing the lay figure groups and the 

 attendant exhibits, before described, to study not only the peoples 

 and compare their culture to good advantage, but to have in orderly 

 view the full range of culture achievement from lowest to highest the 

 world over? This especial concept is illustrated in tig. -i, in which, 

 instead of the linear arrangement, a radiate grouping is suggested. The 

 inner concentric space . I could be occupied by the most primitive peoples, 

 the succeeding concentric space 7/ by the next higher peoples, and so on 

 out to the periphery, while the various activities would occupy the radial 



