84 ANNUAL EEPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 



The groups and other objects showing the life and habits of the Philippine 

 Islanders formed a most attractive exhibit. Among these was a family group 

 of the Negritos of Zambales, a small, black people inhabiting several isolated 

 places in various islands of the Philippines. Their houses are nothing but 

 rude shelters, and are scattered throughout the country. There was also ex- 

 hibited a typical collection of specimens showing the arts and industries of this 

 tribe. 



The Igorot of Bontoc were represented by a family group of four figures. 

 This people is of Malayan stock and pursue agriculture and other peaceful 

 vocations. Until quite recently, in contrast to their pacific dispositions, they 

 were addicted to the barbarous practice of head-hunting. jTheir arts were 

 represented by a number of objects, including articles of personal adornment 

 and carved wooden figures. 



The arts and industries of the Moro and Bagobo tribes of Mindanao were 

 shown by specimens of baskets, shellwork, ornaments, metal work, and 

 costumes. 



The Tagal. the most progressive of the native tribes, having been in contact 

 with Spanish civilization for several centuries, were represented by articles 

 of pottery, cups, bowls, cloth, costumes, arms, and a lay figure of a weaver 

 at work. 



The general history of the Philippine Islands at the close of the war with 

 Spain was portrayed by a series of photographs of the natives, family life. 

 occupations, dwellings, churches, and of historic scenes. 



The exhibit illustrating the history of the Hawaiians comprised a model of 

 a village of the early Hawaiians, who formerly lived in grass-thatched houses, 

 grouped into villages, constituting the home of a clan, presided over by a chief 

 and a priest. The exhibit also included a large series comprising several hun- 

 dred ethnological objects collected by Mr. N. B. Emerson, and of photographs 

 representing buildings, ancient and modern, and various data illustrative of 

 church, settlement, and school work. 



The Samoans, who are a robust and active people, living in comfortable 

 palm-roofed houses, were represented by a family group. Oil painting of a 

 Samoan man and woman and photographs of native houses formed a part of 

 the exhibit, as well as a number of objects connected with their social life. 



The Guam and Marianne Islands exhibit embraced photographs of some 

 of the natives and their houses. 



The evolution and history of photography was well illustrated by a collection 

 prepared by Mr. Thomas W. Smillie, beginning with the earliest permanent 

 photographs, and including examples of nearly all of the most important dis- 

 coveries and inventions up to the present time. Many of the specimens were 

 made by the inventors of the processes and others in the Museum laboratory. 

 The collections of color photographs are especially fine, beginning with the 

 tinting and then an elaborate coloring of the photograph by hand, and the 

 patented processes for transferring the film to a colored base, which finally 

 led to the almost perfect photographs in color, as made by Ives, Wood, Lippman, 

 Miley, and the autochromes made in our own laboratory. 



The history of medicine, prepared by Dr. J. M. Flint, consisted mainly of 

 photographs and biographical sketches of noted doctors, beginning with the 

 physician who accompanied Capt. John Smith to America and covering the 

 twentieth century up to and including experiments conducted by Major Reed 

 for the prevention of yellow fever in Cuba in 1891. 



These exhibtis by the Institution and the Museum were prepared by the 

 representative, with the assistance of Mr. W. H. Holmes, of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnolgoy: Dr. Walter Hough, acting head curator of anthropology; 



