€8 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1920. 



Art Textiles. — On a recent visit to America, Lady Allan Johnstone 

 indicated her intention to make permanent as a gift that portion of 

 the laces left as a loan by her mother, Mrs. J. TV. Pinchot, founder 

 of the art textile collection. This public-spirited action on the part 

 of the Pinchot heirs establishes firmly the national collection of laces 

 of every type, which formerly was made up almost solely of loans 

 from the ladies who were interested by Mrs. Pinchot. The valuable 

 loan collection of Oriental rugs installed last year was still on exhi- 

 bition. It contains choice examples of the following makes : Ar- 

 menian, Dragon, Turcoman, Caucasian, Anatolian, Ispahan, Beshire, 

 Hamadan, Ferahan, Yomud, Herati, Bergamos, Shiras, Kuba, Mu- 

 jour, Kulah, Cabistan, Ourshak, Sarook, Lesghian, Konia, Yoruck, 

 Joshgan, Lerma, Syrian, and Spanish. 



Anthropological Laboratory. — The^ laboratory continued in the 

 efficient hands of Mr. W. H. Egberts. Important features of the 

 laboratory work are the modeling of exhibits in claj', casting these 

 in plaster and finishing in color. During the year a lay figure 

 group of Kiowa children at play, comprising seven figures, was 

 completed and placed on exhibition, and a single figure was 

 added to the group of the Zuni pottery-makers. Numerous casts of 

 exhibits injured in transportation or rendered disreputable by use 

 and the hand of time were repaired and repainted, broken crockery 

 was mended and picture frames were repaired and regilded. A bust 

 in plaster Avas molded and cast, to be utilized in installing the cos- 

 tume, recently presented, of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, for the series of 

 the mistresses of the White House. A special feature of the work was 

 the casting and painting of parts of lay figures for the Red Cross 

 Museum, and the modeling of numerous miniature figures for a 

 group to represent an American Red Cross canteen in France, and 

 was at the close of the year in course of preparation. During past 

 years the laboratory had become a storehouse of molds and casts, a 

 large part of which were imperfectly recorded and in bad condition. 

 All of this material was assorted, classified, repaired, recorded, 

 marked, and systematically arranged in racks and shelves or stored 

 in the attic. Rejected materials were condemned and destroyed. 



