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iron. The auvil was about 2 inches long and 1 inch wide, driven into 

 a block of wood which in its turn was driven firmly in the ground, the 

 whole affair being not more than 5 or 6 inches above the level of the 

 ground. This was the most primitive blacksmith shop w I had ever seen, 

 and it interested me much, but my interest was redoubled when on 

 going through the Esplanade des Iuvalides in the colony of Senegal I 

 came upon the same machine, same workshop, with the same furniture 

 and tools and implements, and all worked in the same way. 



Another of these life-size groups constructed and displayed in the 

 court of the section of anthropology was from our own continent. It 

 represented the Aztecs in old Mexico in the act of preparing the agave 

 plant and making it into fiber to be woven into cloth (Plate olxi). The 

 agave plaut is the American aloe, and there were many of them planted 

 around and in the neighborhood of the Mexican colony. It serves many 

 purposes of livelihood for the poor people, probably not now so much as 

 in times of antiquity. It made their fences or hedges, the trunks of its 

 trees made their houses, its leaves served for ropes, it made thread 

 of the long fiber, and needles of the sharp points. The interior of leaves, 

 the juicy part, produces alcoholic liquor, and it can be formed into the 

 fiber of which their textile fabrics were made. The two life-size figures, 

 the one engaged in beatiug, the other in rolling or bruising the agave 

 plant fiber, were believed to be correct representations of the Aztec 

 people at the time of the discovery of America by Columbus. 



SOCIETY OF ANTHROPOLOGY OF PARIS. 



This society made a separate display under the protection of the 

 minister of public instruction. 



The objects displayed under the direction of the Society of Authro- 

 pology occupied a large space in the grand hall in the second story of 

 the maiu building in the department of the minister of public instruc- 

 tion. Its classification was as follows : 



I.— Anatomic anthropology. 



(1) Society of Autopsy, (2) Cerebral Morphology, (3) Histology of Cerebral Con- 

 volutions, (4) Crauiology, (5) Osteology, (6) Comparative Splauchology, (7) Myol- 

 ogy, (8) Aothropogeuy. 



II. — Prehistoric anthropology. 



(1) Geologic Palethnology, (2) Miueralogic Palethnology, (3) Ages of Stone. 

 Classification, (4) Processes of fabrication of the various forms of implements, (5) 

 Age of Metal, (6) Paleoanthropology — prehistoric skulls and skeletons, (7) Trepana- 

 tion, (8) Agriculture of Palethnology, (9) Methods of Excavation. 



III. — Ethnography. 



(1) Algeria and Tunis, (2) Central Asia, (3) Malacca, (4) Indo-China and Cam- 

 bodia, (5) Cochin China, (6) United States of America, (7) Venezuela, (8) Miscella- 

 neous. 



IV.— History of religions. 



(1) Amulets, (2) Divinities. 



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