COLLECTORS OB^ SPECIMENS HOLMES AND MASON. [10] 



20. Animal Products. — Here belong those intermediary industrial 

 arts practiced on the parts of animals — their skins, bones, shells, teeth, 

 hair, scales, feathers, etc. In the lower forms of culture an enormous 

 amount of time is expended on these arts, especiall}^ in decorations 

 and jewelry. 



21. Curing Flesh. — One of the earliest steps in the artificialities 

 of living is the drying, salting, and smoking of fish and flesh. Speci- 

 mens of such art products are difficult to preserve in a museum, except 

 hermetically sealed, but the apparatus and processes may be photo- 

 graphed and described. 



22. Paints and Dyes. — This class includes the arts of coloring, 

 varnishing, cementing, and cleansing with mineral, vegetal, and animal 

 paints, dyes, lacquers, resins, gums, cement, wax, used in the arts. A 

 collection of any one of these classes in various stages of preparation 

 and use, together with examples, would be prized. 



23. Transportation on Land. — B}^ this is meant all aids in land 

 travel, whether they be the peculiar costume and accessories of going- 

 afoot, including pack, staff, and scrip of the burden bearer, or such 

 devices as are emplo3"ed in harnessing animals. The entire subject 

 of the water buffalo, as a pack and traction beast, is new to the 

 National Museum, so harness and photographs of the animal in all its 

 customary pursuits are desired. 



21. Transportation by Water. — This is the most interesting of all 

 native arts in the Philippines. When it is remembered that the pre- 

 dominant race on the islands is the one that discovered and settled 

 every archipelago in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of years before Colum- 

 bus, without compass or any other pilots than those natural guides so 

 near to the savage navigator, it will be seen at once how important 

 every fact and specimen connected with water transportation becomes. 

 To officers of the Navy the National Museum makes a special appeal 

 for a complete collection to illustrate the sailor's art in the Philippines. 



All devices for getting about or transportation on the water should 

 be included — floats, rafts, hulls, outriggers, paddles, rudders, masts, 

 rigging, sails, sailing rules and charts, artificial waterways, sea lore 

 and craft. Descriptions of the art and rules of navigation, accompa- 

 nied with models, photographs, and descriptions which only a skilled 

 expert could prepare would become of the treasures of the Museum. 



25. Metrics and Commerce. — In comparison with the delicate and 

 intricate processes and devices for counting, weighing, and measuring 

 used in civilization, the simpler ones among the lower races are most 

 instructive. Here ma}^ be placed counting scores, records, tallies, 

 arithmetical devices, standard measures of length, of surface, of 

 C'apacity (liquid and solid), of weight, of time (dials, clocks, and cal- 

 endars), of value (every substitute for money), commercial rules, forms, 

 and packages. 



