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of the Canadian Pacific Railroad through British Columbia. 
Such of these as supplement the large collection made by the 
Jesup expedition are being cast and the casts are being colored 
for exhibition in the Museum. These specimens are also being 
illustrated and described for publication in a memoir of the Jesup 
expedition on the Archeology of Puget Sound. 
Mr. FRANK G. Speck, who has been engaged in field work in 
Indian Territory for the Department of Ethnology, has suffered 
sunstroke. While he is not in danger of his life, this unfortunate 
occurrence will greatly interfere with the work for which he is 
particularly fitted. 
Dr. P. E. Gopparp, of the University of California, has com- 
pleted the field work in Ethnology which he undertook last 
summer among the Sarcee Indians of Canada for the American 
Museum. His collection, which has been received here, includes 
several important medicine objects. 
Mr. W. C. OrcHarp has made a number of tepee models, 
showing the methods of tying the poles, decorating the outside ~ 
and arranging and furnishing the interior. These have been in- 
stalled in the west wing, ground floor. In the same hall an ex- 
hibit has been made of a Blackfoot Medicine Pipe, showing its 
place in the tepee when in use, together with the numerous ob- 
jects pertaining to it. This medicine outfit has an elaborate 
ritual with seventy songs, all of which have been recorded with 
a phonograph and preserved by the Museum. 
Mr. R. H. Lowie has installed an exhibit of primitive fire- 
making in the West Wing of the second floor (Hall No. 202). 
Since it was by the use of fire that mankind advanced from a 
merely animal mode of life to the present level of material 
culture, an exposition of the methods by which the different 
peoples obtained fire forms the first chapter in the history of 
civilization. This exhibit demonstrates the fact that practically 
all people used some kind of wood friction to get the first spark 
of artificial light and heat. 
