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totem pole, were installed at the south end of the middle hall, where 

 they make a striking display. In the arrangement of the collections 

 from the Pueblo region it was found advisable to separate the an- 

 tiquities from the ethnological material proper, with which they have 

 heretofore been associated, and they have been transferred to the 

 division of prehistoric archeology. The construction of lay figure 

 groups progressed rapidly, and seven full-sized groups of this charac- 

 ter were added to the exhibition. 



The exhibits of this division are assembled primarily by geo- 

 graphical areas, and the peoples and their cultures, so far as repre- 

 sented, may thus be studied in much the same order that the peoples 

 themselves might be visited M^ the traveler. Under these heads the 

 classification is by nations or tribes, and by special exhibition units 

 illustrating culture as follows: Tribal arts, synoptic series of arti- 

 facts, family groups, industrial groups, individual figures, pictorial 

 exhibits, and sculptural exhibits. Of the 16 full-sized lay figure 

 groups that have been planned the following 12 are finished and 

 on view, namely, the Eskimo, Chilkat, Hupa, Cocopa, Zuiii, Sioux, 

 Virginia, Tehuelche, Samoan, Negrito, the arrow makers, and the 

 snake dance. 



The reserve collections received due attention, but their final sys- 

 tematic arrangement has been deferred until practically all of the 

 specimens required for exhibition have been removed. The material 

 is, however, in better condition and much more accessible than at 

 any previous time, and less trouble is experienced from insect pests, 

 owing undoubtedly to the fact that the metal storage cases and 

 drawers now employed furnish no breeding places for them. 



The curator of the division. Dr. Walter Hough, continued his study 

 of the culture history of the upper Gila River and the Salt River, 

 based on the collections of the Museum-Gates expedition of 1905 

 and the Museum exploration of 1903, together with all other material 

 from the same region contained in the Museum, and expects to com- 

 plete his work on this subject during the current year. Progress is 

 also reported in his researches on fire making and illumination. The 

 division was visited, for the purpose of securing information, by a 

 number of ethnologists, among whom were Dr. H. J. Spinden, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, who studied the designs 

 on modern Pueblo pottery, and Mr. C. M. Barbeau, of the Geologi- 

 cal Survey of Canada, who examined the patterns on the moose hair 

 and quill work specimens of the old Hurons and Iroquois. 



Prehistoric archeology. — Especially noteworthy among the addi- 

 tions was a collection of stone, bone^ and pottery objects from the 

 cemetery of the ruined pueblo of Kwasteyukwa, west of Jemez Hot 

 Springs, N. Mex., obtained during excavations by the joint expedition 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the School of American 



