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will be reproductions of the magnificent life-like figures in the Tervueren 
Museum, near Brussels, and all will have the appearance of animation, 
as they will portray the natives engaged in hunting and in their ordinary 
peaceful occupations. When the great number and diversity of the tribes 
in Central Africa, both in the valleys and on the uplands are considered, 
the scope for picturesque display may be realized. 
In addition to the ethnological specimens, M. Liebrechts, secretary 
general of the Congo Department of the Interior, has promised the most 
complete data possible in the shape of photographs, statistical docu- 
ments and samples of exported products, together with the entire series 
of the scientific publications of the Congo Independent State. 
On its part, the American Museum of Natural History will send out 
expeditions to procure specimens illustrating fully the animal and plant 
life of this region. It will also collect all available data from independ- 
ent trustworthy sources, concerning the Congo State, its discovery, 
history, resources and administration, so that all sides of the question 
will be presented for the examination of those interested. 
The continent of Africa is being so rapidly opened up to occupa- 
tion by civilized peoples that it is of the highest importance, from the 
point of view of the ethnologist, that collections be made without delay 
illustrating the life and the history of the savage and semi-savage tribes 
now living there. Hence the material recently received from the Congo, 
together with that which has been promised and that which had been 
obtained from East Africa and elsewhere will form an extensive and 
comprehensive collection which will probably, in a comparatively few 
years, be unique and of inestimable value. 
A COLLECTION FROM THE TUKANO INDIANS OF SOUTH 
AMERICA. 
a) L\ HE Museum acquired in September a large amount of 
RUA ethnological material from the Tukéno Indians of 
YA) South America, the result of an eight-month sojourn 
of the well known scientist and collector, Mr. Hermann 
Schmidt, among the almost unknown people of the 
Rio Caiary-Uaupes, a tributary of the Rio Negro in 
the State of Amazonas, Brazil. The locality is so remote from civili- 
zation, and the difficulty and danger incurred in reaching it are so great, 
