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for art and science on the ribbon of the order of the crown of Wuerttem- 
berg, the order of the Hoiy Sava of Servia, the large medal for art and 
science and the great gold medal from His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, 
the academic laurels and election as “ Officier de 1’ Académie”’ of France, 
the gold state medal of Prussia, the gold medal of the Paris Salon and the 
great Chicago medal of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 
The present portrait represents Mr. Choate clad in the bright red 
gown of Oxford University, from which he received the degree of D. C. L. 
in 1902. Tle is seated in an arm chair, his right hand on his knee clasp- 
ing the collegiate cap, but so well has the artist caught the spirit of the 
man that he seems about to rise in greeting and to be on the point of 
giving utterance to some of those happy phrases which make him an 
orator of international reputation. ‘The artist has unusuai strength in 
the individualization of greatness and in this, her latest work, she has 
been particularly successful in giving expression to the steriing qualities 
which so endear Mr. Choate to his friends. 
LENDERS INDIAN COLLECTION 
HE Lenders collection, valued at $30,000, which has recentiy been 
purchased by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan for the Museum has now 
been temporarily installed in the South Pacific Hall on the 
fourth floor. The collection, brought together through many years of 
travel by Mr. E. W. Lenders, a noted artist of Philadelphia, is rich in 
material from the Plains Indians, although there are some specimens 
from the Eastern Woodlands, the North Pacifie Coast and the South- 
west. The tribes are, in order of the importance of their representation , 
the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Crow, Nez Percé, Plains 
Cree, Assiniboine, Apache, Comanche, Kiowa and Shoshone. 
A highly interesting part of the material is a series of Sioux costumes. 
Seven scalp shirts attract immediate attention. ‘The best of them is an 
old one made of antelope skin decorated with beautiful porcupine-quill 
work and colored with native dyes. Several women’s costumes are note- 
worthy, and among them are two dresses of more than usual interest. 
One is very old and is of skin ornamented with elk teeth. It is the second 
specimen of the kind to come into the possession of the Museum. The 
