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craft or trade — for «5xaiiii»le, the harvester, the miller, the cook, the tanner, the 

 potter, tiie \vea\er, uud so on. Under each of these heads, by a collection of speci- 

 meus, it was shown what women from every savage area are capable of doing. The 

 division Avas lirst technic and tiien ctliiiic. The wh<de title of the exhibit would 

 read, " What women of savagery in each trade could do, and how these works 

 appeared Avhen compared ethnically. " 



Eeference has already been made to the participation of the Siuitb- 

 sonian Tiistitutioii in tlie Colnrnbijin Historical Exposition at Madrid, 

 and to the fact that the larger portion of the material was lent from 

 the National Museum. 



As a matter of foct, most of the matter sent from the Museum was 

 selected from the exhibits already prepared, mounted, and labeled for 

 the World's Fair in Chicago, and but for the elaborate preparations 

 which had already been made, it would have been impossible for the 

 United States upon so short a notice to have made so creditable a 

 showing- upon this most important anniversary. It was a matter of 

 much regret that the pressure of the preparation of the exhibit for 

 Chicago was so great that Prof. Mason could not accompany the col 

 lection to Madrid, as it represented so much of his individual activity, 

 especially since he had been identitied from the beginuing with the 

 committee of organization, which was appointed by the Spanish min- 

 ister in Washington, and which had already done much to excite pub- 

 lic interest in this occasion. I lis assistant. Dr. Walter Hough, was 

 attached to the American commission, and was charged with the instal 

 lation of the material from this department, as well as with the prepa- 

 ration of the Spanish catalogue, an English translation of which will 

 appear in the forthcoming report of the Madrid Exposition. This cata- 

 logue embodies the descriptive labels of a large portion of the collec- 

 tion which was sent to Cliicago, and which will in time be utilized in 

 the preparation of various memoirs illustrative of the Exi)osition mate- 

 rial in the Museum. 



Although allnsi(m has been made to the Museum staff of preparators 

 in connection with the Chicago exhibit, it seems only proi)er to refer 

 here to the admirable work of those especially attached to the ethno- 

 logical collections, notably Mr. Carl liergman, in the mounting and 

 costuming of groups of tigures, and Mr. Thomas W, Sweeny in arranging 

 and labeling the cases containing the comparative collections. Mr. 

 Theodore A. Mills and Mr. Dunbar rendered excellent services in the 

 modeling and casting of the bodies, heads, and limbs of the figures in 

 groups. 



All the activities of the department were so absorbed by the work 

 which has just been described, that this and the preceding year's work 

 upon i)apers and monographs upon tne collection was to a large degree 

 interrupted. A paper upon " The Ulu, or Woman's Knife of tiie 

 Eskimo,'' by the curator, in the Keport of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 appeared during the year.* This i):iper was prepared especially for 



* Report of the U. S. National Museum, 1890-'91, pp. 411-416, Pis. lii-lxxxii. 



