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trating Moorish art were installed. Interesting and rare costumes 

 and ornaments of the Miaotse and Thai of south China from the 

 Wulsin expedition under the National Geographic Society were ex- 

 hibited and Chinese imperial costumes were installed on lay figures. 

 A representation of the Choco collection from Panama, received 

 through the Marsh-Darien expedition, was put on exhibit, and the 

 last unit of the Ella F. Hubby collection of California Indian 

 baskets was added to those already displayed. On the exhibit floor 

 the Zuni potter and Navaho silversmith groups were reinstalled, 

 and figures in the Quarry group, the Eskimo group, and the Mohave 

 Indian case were repaired and readjusted. Especially valuable in 

 connection with the exhibits is a place catalogue of specimens, 

 admitting of the locating of any object in a minimum of time, 

 prepared a few months ago by the staff of ethnology. 



In American archeology rearrangement of the study series was 

 continued. With consolidation of State collections, with much de- 

 tailed work devoted to the division records pertaining to those 

 collections, and with many erroneously numbered and mislabeled 

 specimens identified, it may be said truthfully that the collections 

 of American archeology are now in better condition than they have 

 been at any previous time in the historj^ of the Museum. Two new 

 and attractive groups illustrating the Cliff-dwellers and the Creek 

 Indian flint chipper, were produced by Mr. Egberts and set up in 

 the exhibit hall. In the laboratory, activity was shown in the 

 restoration and repair of ancient pottery, and in making casts of 

 stone implements. 



In the division of Old World archeology there was much activity 

 in labeling and installation. Four cases illustrating Jewish cere- 

 monials were placed in the section of historic religions, and a case 

 was added to the exhibits of ecclesiastical art. Pr^istoric exhibits 

 from France, Switzerland, and Africa were increased by the addi- 

 tion of other specimens. 



In the division of physical anthropology the work of cleaning 

 the skeletal material in the Huntington collection was finished, and 

 other important collections were taken up for cleaning and repair. 

 Material on exhibition was increased by the addition of acient skulls, 

 brain casts of prehistoric skulls, and skulls showing various types of 

 head form. 



In connection with Miss Frances Densmore's work in preparing a 

 handbook of the collection of musical instruments in the Museum,, 

 all of these specimens were rearranged and the cases painted. This 

 important collection presents now a more attractive appearance than 

 ever before. 



