COLLECTOKS OF SPECIMENS HOLMES AND MASON. [4] 



experts if photographs, sketches, and notes are secured. It is not 

 unusual, however, that native artisans are clever at making models on 

 a small scale. 



Where there is doubt regarding the advisability of sending large 

 objects, or such as may duplicate former sendings, it is well to await 

 advices from Washington, 



As the amount of money at the disposal of the National Museum for 

 the increase of its collections is extremely small, it is desirable that 

 the authorities be consulted by the collector before transmitting to it 

 objects whose acquisition or transportation would involve the expendi- 

 ture of sums of money other than nominal charges. 



HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. 



Historical collections may consist of a wide range of objects, repre- 

 senting not only America, but the nations with which the United States 

 happens to have relations, and particular interest attaches to such 

 things as have been associated directly with prominent national per- 

 sonages or with great national events; these are of lasting interest to 

 our people. Among appropriate specimens may be mentioned weapons 

 and munitions of all kinds — cannon, rifles, pistols, projectiles, torpe- 

 does, swords, knives, etc. ; all kinds of minor devices and appliances 

 employed in navigation, land transportation, signaling, engineering, 

 etc.; banners, uniforms, costumes, and separate parts of costumes; 

 medals, coins, badges, books, documents, maps, and photographs, and 

 in fact anything that may serve as a representative of historical per- 

 sonages or events. 



Of more than usual interest are the weapons and other warlike 

 appliances and paraphernalia of the Philippine peoples, representing 

 as they do several races of men and many grades of culture, from 

 civilization to savagery. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 



Anthropological collections are of three kinds, to wit: Objects or 

 specimens; photographs and drawings; narratives and descriptions. 

 The specimens form the cabinet, the pictures give life to the speci- 

 mens and show them in their true environment, the descriptions form 

 the basis of all labels and of the literature of anthropology. 



All of these have reference, first, to man himself (in this case chiefly 

 to the Filipinos), and, second, to man's works. The former belong to 

 somatology^ the latter to ethnology. 



A.— SOMATOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 



No other people in the world presents a more important fiekl for 

 thorough anthropological research than the Filipinos, in whose veins 

 runs the blood of all the varieties of mankind: Negrito, Papuan, and 



