September 26, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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able to enter further into the details in this 

 place. 



The labels required in this , ethnic unit 

 are as follows: (a) A sign, about 12 by 24 

 inches to be suspended above the exhibit, 

 serving to correlate it with the associated 



descriptive label, which go with each ex- 

 hibit, referring to it as a whole, all save 

 the family group require labels for the in- 

 dividual specimens. One example of these 

 specimen labels {d), taken from the dwell- 

 ing group series may be given: 



id) 



DWELLIJIG GROUP OP THE CENTRAL ESKIMO. 

 TYPE OF THE AECTIC REGION. 



The Central Eskimo live on the area between Hudson Strait and 

 Baffin Bay. Tlieir winter houses are built of blocks of snow laid up 

 in a spiral manner, forming a dome. 

 The blocks are about three feet long, 

 two feet high and six inches thick. 

 The main chamber of the house va- 

 ries from five to twelve feet in 

 height, and from seven to fifteen feet 

 in diameter. Over the entrance a 

 square is cut out and covered with 

 seal intestine for a window. The 

 dome is connected by passageways 

 with one or more outbuildings or 

 packing rooms. In the summer the 

 natives fish in the open water; in 

 winter seals are taken by nets set 

 vmder the ice. Dogs are attached to 

 the sled by separate lines. The cloth- 

 ing of the men and women is made 

 from skins of seal and deer, and con- 

 sists of outside and inside trousers, 

 jackets (those of the women having hoods), boots, and inside boots or 

 socks made of light deer skin or bird skin. 



This group forms one of a series designed to set forth the dwell- 

 ings and home life of native tribes in the Western Hemisphere. 



units in the Museum series. (&) Case label, 

 about 5 by 16 inches, to be framed and 

 placed on or immediately above each ease to 

 designate its contents in a general way and 

 expressive of the broadest classification. 

 The ease label for the family group is as 

 shown above. 



(c) Descriptive label, about 8 by 10 

 inches, two copies to be framed and hung in 

 each exhibition case near the level of the 

 eye. That for the family group is shown. 



Beside the case label and the general 



CULTURE-HISTORY SERIES ILLUSTRATED. 



The nature of the geo-ethnic or specializa- 

 tion area assemblage of the culture materi- 

 als of the world has been sufficiently shown 

 in the preceding pages. It is the first and 

 most important method for a general mu- 

 seum. It remains now to explain briefly 

 the nature of the culture history installa- 

 tion, a partial list of the available exhibition 

 units of this class having already been giv- 

 en. 



In Fig. 8, we have a scheme for placing 



