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In addition, an ethnological exhibit installed in thirty-two unit boxes, was dis- 

 played in the annex to the woman's building. Each contained a typical example of 

 woman's work in America, Africa, Polynesia, and a few from other regions. 



These examples of woman's work related to the arts of food gathering, preparing, 

 and serving; to clothing in its various forms derived from the vegetable and animal 

 kingdoms, and of the furniture of the habitation. In addition to these there were 

 exhibited the primitive ideas of women connected with form and color in decoration. 



In front of these cases, were three cases in which were three American Indian 

 women in costume: (1) An Eskimo woman of Bathurst, the whole costume being 

 made of reindeer skin, trimmed with the fur of small animals; (2) A Kiowa woman 

 in native costume of buckskin, colored green, and carrying on her back a cradle or 

 papoose frame, in which was shown a child securely wrapped; (3) A Piute woman 

 from the great interior basin, gathering seeds from the wild grasses, to be subsequently 

 ground and made into bread. 



In addition to the specimens and lay-figures shown, there was, in connection with 

 the ethnological exhibit, a collection of ethnographic transparencies, which aided 

 in the understanding of tbe specimens in relation to their environments. 



The exhibit was prepared by Prof. 0. T. Mason, and installed by Mr. T. W. 

 Sweeny. 



Department of prehistoric anthropology. — The exhibit of this department was con- 

 fined to a display of prehistoric objects from foreign countries. This restriction in 

 the scope of the exhibit was made in the belief that the weapons, implements, and 

 ornaments found in the Tennessee Valley and other sections of the United States, 

 would be amply illustrated in the various local exhibits of prehistoric objects. 



The Paleolithic period was represented by specimens from a large portion of the 

 Eastern Hemisphere — England, France, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Hindustan, and other 

 countries. 



The Neolithic period was represented by different implements, principally of pol- 

 ished stone, from great areas. They were classified chiefly according to function. 



The distribution of nucleii (or cores), flakes, and hammerstones, polished stone 

 hatchets, scrapers, arrowheads and spearheads, and similar implements was shown to 

 be world-wide. Special attention was called to the similarity of the polished stone 

 hatchets from distant and widely separated countries throughout the world. 



An entire case was devoted to a display of objects belonging to the bronze age. 

 These began with the most primitive implements, as the plain hatchet, and ulti- 

 mately included many other weapons, implements, utensils, and ornaments of later 

 date. Among these were hatchets, swords, daggers, knives, sickles, fishhooks, 

 household utensils, mirrors, combs, thimbles, bracelets, fibulas, rings, pins, objects 

 and ornaments of dress and for the boudoir. 



The collection was selected and arranged by Dr. Thomas Wilson. 



Department of oriental antiquities and religious ceremonials. — The exhibit of this 

 department consisted of objects intended to illustrate Brahmanism and Buddhism 

 (the principal religions of Eastern Asia), Mohammedanism, the literary history of 

 the Bible, and the religious ceremonials of the Jews. 



Brahmanism was represented by a collection of images of the principal divinities 

 and by various implements and paraphernalia illustrative of the religious worship, 

 the ascetic life of devotees, and the institution of caste, which plays such an impor- 

 tant part in the religious and social life of India. 



Buddhism was represented by several images of Buddha and of Buddhist saints, 

 and by a collection of musical instruments and other objects used by the Buddhists 

 in their religious worship. 



The history of the Bible as a book was illustrated by a collection of Bibles, which 

 included manuscripts and old and rare editions of the original texts, as well as of 

 the most important ancient and modern translations of the Scriptures. The collec- 

 tion thus afforded an interest not only to biblical knowledge, but also to the study 

 of paleography and literary history. 



The Jewish religious ceremonials were represented by a collection of modern 



