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palm blossoms. It is desirable to procure the apparatus employed in 

 the manufacture, the vessels for holding, packing, transporting, and 

 serving. The student of folklore will find in this class opportunity 

 for gathering a vast amount of material. 



3. Narcotics, Drugs, and Medicines. — Raw materials of these, 

 and products in various degrees of preparation, if possible, in native 

 packages, with native names, always with apparatus and utensils. 

 Betel outfits, surgical instruments in common use, medicine men's 

 drugs, and sorcerers' healing paraphernalia. Poisons for men or for 

 animals. 



4. Dress and Adornment. — This large and interesting class 

 includes all that is worn upon the person; even tattooing and fashion- 

 able deformations must not be neglected, such as filing the teeth, etc. 

 Clothing for men, women, and children, and for each season or occa- 

 sion, finds place in this series. Whole costumes are preferable to sep- 

 arate pieces, and the clothing for a family or group is greatl}^ to be 

 prized. But every piece of native dress will be valued in proportion 

 to the knowledge concerning it. In tropical countries clothing is not 

 abundant; for that reason the little that is worn is the more significant. 

 If practicable, models of figures, correctly dressed, should be secured 

 on the spot. For comparative studies, collections of head gear espe- 

 cially, shoes, etc., made from island to island and from tribe to tribe, 

 would be appreciated. 



5. Accessories to Dress. — By this term are meant those additions 

 to dress that are thought necessary to its completion on common or 

 uncommon occasions, head dresses of occasion, paints, cosmetics, per- 

 fumes, washes, dj'es, unguents, jewelry for various parts of the body, 

 umbrellas, fans, stafis, and all such like things. 



6. Habitations and other Buildings. — Descriptions, pictures or 

 models of all structures associated with the word "home.'" This will 

 include materials, ground plans, framing, walls, roofs, porches, gal- 

 leries, and other structural details, groupings of buildings to form the 

 home, decorations (outside and inside), partitions, ceilings, doors, win- 

 dows, screens, ladders, bolts, locks, and other hardware and modes of 

 fastening parts together. The place and uses of fire and smoke should 

 be shown and described. Models of houses for men, for women, for 

 boys, for assemblies; of fences, gardens, inclosures for animals, and 

 villag'es are most desirable. In the United States National Museum 

 the standard ground plan unit for models is 20 by 30 inches, and if 

 practicable this may be followed. 



7. Furniture. — This class embraces all those appliances which, in 

 primitive form, take the place of kitchen utensils, cellars, lockups, 

 packing receptacles, dining-room and guest-room tables, chairs, sofas, 

 divans, matting, racks, furniture of the bedroom, in more cultured 

 homes. Models will suflice in the case of bulky objects. 



