ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XLVII 



This exhibit occupies the southern portion of the government 

 building-. It comprises a large amount of material of popular 

 as well as scientific interest, derived from various sections of 

 the country, a considerable part of this material having been 

 collected or prepared especially for the exposition. Most of 

 the collaborators of the Bureau have contributed directly or 

 indirectly to this exhibit. 



The work of the modeling department has been continued. 

 The chief work has lain in the restoration and repair of models 

 previously constructed and exhibited at the expositions in New 

 Orleans and Madrid. A number of new models and several 

 replicas of models already constructed have, however, been 

 prepared, chiefly for use in the Columbian Exposition. 



During the year an exceptional number of applications for 

 definite information concerning our native tribes have been 

 received from the publishers of enc} T clopedias, dictionaries, 

 physical geographies, and other standard works, and in view 

 of the educational value of these publications and the manifest 

 public advantage to be gained from the diffusion of the results of 

 the latest scientific researches, it has been deemed important to 

 respond to such applications so fully as possible. Much infor- 

 mation has been disseminated in this way during the year, and 

 several encyclopedia articles have been prepared by the Director 

 and different collaborators of the Bureau. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



The work connected with the illustration of reports has 

 been continued under the supervision of Mr De Lancey W. 

 Gill, chief of the division of illustrations of the Geological Sur- 

 vey, the actual labor of executing drawings being performed 

 in large part by Miss Mary Irvin Wright and Miss Mary M. 

 Mitchell. Most of the work done by the former artist is 

 highly elaborate, comprising drawings of Pueblo life and cere- 

 monials and representations of scenes in the ceremonials of the 

 ghost dance. The chief work of the latter has been the prep- 

 aration of drawings of Indian implements, principally objects 

 of stone. Two hundred and fifty-seven original drawings 



