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have been so selected and arranged as to demonstrate these 

 characteristics. Each section of a case is devoted to a distinct 

 phase of Plains life, and a label conveniently placed, states as 

 briefly and concisely as possible, the facts pertaining to the 

 specimens and their relation to the culture of an Indian tribe 

 as a whole. As soon as practicable wall maps will be added to 

 give the location of the principal tribes and their distribution 

 throughout the area. This installation is the first step toward 

 the re-arrangement of the halls of ethnology with the view to 

 present systematical!}^ the general ethnography of North America. 



Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks, formerly the Chief of the Ethnolo- 

 gical Survey of the Philippine Islands, has been engaged in the 

 cataloguing of the Philippine Ethnological collection, purchased 

 at the St. Louis Exposition. Dr. Jenks is the chief authority upon 

 the ethnology of the Philippines, and the Museum has been very 

 fortunate in securing his services for this work. The collection 

 now in the Museum is the largest and most complete Philippine 

 collection in existence. 



Mr. William Orchard recently made a visit to the site of the 

 old Shinnecock Indian Reservation on Long Island and secured 

 from one of the few survivors of that tribe the necessary infor- 

 mation and assistance to construct an accurate model of the old 

 type of grass-covered house used by these people. This model 

 is now complete and will soon be installed with other 

 material from the Shinnecock Indians. This house model is of 

 special historical interest, because, as far as known, no other 

 model, drawing or satisfactory description of this type of house 

 has ever been made. A few years ago the Shinnecock were 

 visited by Mr. R. M. Harrington, who secured a small collection 

 containing practically all the ethnological specimens that existed. 



A group exhibiting the Black Foot medicine pipe and acces- 

 sories has been installed in the Hall of North American Indians, 

 No. 1 02 of the Ground Floor. The exhibit is arranged to show 

 the exact manner in which the pipe and its elaborate parapher- 

 nalia were placed for use in the ceremonies of the Black Foot. 



