THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



the affairs of the world. For this reason a start has been made 

 with the establishment of a Chinese department. The funds for 

 this important enterprise were given by a friend of the Museum 

 and the work has been placed in charge of Dr. Berthold Laufer, who 

 had previously done work on the Amur river for the Jesup expedi- 

 tion. The object of his work is to make a collection illustrat- 

 ing the popular forms of the industrial, social and religious life of 

 the Chinese, and to elucidate by a few selected collections the his- 

 torical development and far-reaching influence of Chinese culture. 



The comprehensive plan that has been pursued in the de- 

 velopment of the Department has made it necessary for a num- 

 ber of years to elapse before a somewhat systematic exhibit could 

 be made and for wide gaps to exist in many directions. At the 

 same time, however, the method pursued has made it possible 

 to make each exhibit a unit which has a definite scientific and 

 educational significance. The scientific publications of the De- 

 partment have kept pace with the building up of the colle ctions 

 and publications and collections illustrate each other. 



The general location of these ethnological collections in the 

 Museum is as follows : The ground floor in the north wing con- 

 tains material from the North Pacific coast ; the west wing, col- 

 lections from the Arctic coast of America and from the Plains ; the 

 southwest corner, those from Siberia. On the second floor of the 

 west wing are the ethnological collections from the Southwest 

 and from Mexico. In the gallery of the southwest corner, those 

 from China, Japan, Polynesia and Africa. 



ETHNOLOGICAL WORK IN THE SOUTHWESTERN 

 UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. 



R. A. HRDLICKA recently returned, after a little 

 more than seven months' absence, from a success- 

 ful trip to the southwestern United States and 

 northern Mexico. This expedition, the fourth of 

 the series devoted to the physical anthropology 

 of the regions mentioned, has been referred to in Vol. II, No. i, 

 of the Journal. 



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