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Near the Anthropological Building are several outdoor dis- 

 plays of more than usual interest. The party sent out by Prof. 

 Putnam to the ruins of Yucatan and Copan secured at Uxmal, 

 Chichen-Itza, and Labnah "squeezes" of some doorways, corners, 

 arches, etc., showing every detail of ornament and symbolical 

 carving. From these molds casts have been made exactly repro- 

 ducing the structures. A group of five of these lies north from 

 the Anthropological Building. North from this is an interesting 

 series of homes of various American Indians. The palm-thatched 

 hut of the Arawaks of Guiana ; the long house of the Iroquois, 

 constructed of bark, and divided into six spaces within, one for 

 each of the Six Nations ; the birch-bark tent of the Penobscot In- 

 dians of Maine ; the skin-covered tepee of the plains tribes ; the 

 dome-shaped framework of poles, covered with rush matting, of 

 the Algonkins; the plank-covered houses of the Kwakiool of 

 Vancouver Island, and the Haidah of Queen Charlotte Islands 

 with their symbolical paintings and totem posts; these range 

 along the edge of the lagoon on whose waters float various 

 canoes and boats of the natives. These houses have been built 

 from proper materials by the Indians themselves, and most of 

 them are inhabited by families of Indians, some of whom carry 

 on their native arts and industries. Very interesting in this con- 

 nection will be the series of dances of the Kwakiools, for which 

 Dr. Boas has arranged, which will take place at intervals through 

 the season. 



Most interesting material is found in the United States Gov- 

 ernment Building. The National Museum, through Prof. Mason, 

 has set up a suggestive series illustrating the groups of In- 

 dian tribes. A great copy of Powell's Linguistic Map of North 

 America upon the walls represents the groups of tribes as classi- 

 fied by language. In alcoves below, cases full of objects illustrate 

 the arts and industries of these groups. It is most interesting to 

 notice how clearly the influence of environment and the gifts of 

 Nature is shown in the arts and industries. Tribes speaking lan- 

 guages of one stock may show marked diversity in arts if living 

 in unlike surroundings, while tribes widely differing in language 

 may show industrial unity if subjected to similar environments. 

 Very interesting to the crowd are the cases wherein are displayed 

 life-size figures dressed in costumes. Some of these are particu- 

 larly pleasing : the Xivaro, with his feather belt and crown ; the 

 Chippewa blanket painter ; two plains Indian women dressing a 

 buffalo hide one kneeling before a hide hung upon poles scrapes 

 it, while the other pounds a second hide with a stone maul ; a 

 Moki man drilling a turquoise bead with a pump-drill ; a Sioux 

 squaw and children on a pony dragging the travois ; a Mojave 

 man with apron of bark strips, head feathers, and a shell orna- 



