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studies of the great collection of Eskimo material in the 

 museum, is the most important memoir on the people of the 

 Arctic coast of Alaska which has ever been published. The 

 publications of the Smithsonian Institution have been greatly 

 enriched by the articles of Boas on " The Indians of the 

 Northwest Coast," and the work of this eminent ethnologist 

 has made him an authority in this interesting field of re- 

 search. Many collections of objects used in ceremonials have 

 been added to the museum by his industry, and his contribu- 

 tions to folk lore, mythology, and linguistics are widely known 

 among scholars as most valuable additions to knowledge. 



The ethnography of the pueblo area is a favorite child of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology, and this study was much stimulated 

 by the formation of that department of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. The large collections of pueblo pottery, stone imple- 

 ments, ceremonial objects, basketry, blankets, and other 

 specimens illustrating the primitive life of all the pueblos of 

 the Southwest, made by Powell, the Stevensons, Gushing, 

 the Mindeleffs and others, is unsurpassed in any museum. 

 From the time this collection was brought in from the field, 

 until the present, it has contributed material for specialists in 

 several lines of study. Specimens from it have been, perhaps, 

 more often figured than those of any other collection of pueblo 

 objects. To barely mention the articles which contain illus- 

 trations taken from this collection would swell this account 

 to undue proportions. The pottery, stone implements, cere- 

 monial paraphernalia, and other objects represented in the 

 richly illustrated report of Stevenson were drawn from this 

 collection, as well as many figures in the articles of Mrs. 

 Stevenson, whose devotion and industry contributed to the 

 value of the collection. 



The remarkable collections from the Orient, from China, 

 Japan, and Tibet, the hermit nation, Corea, shows how broad 



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