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memory of those who saw them and gave them, at less expenditure of 

 of thought, a better understanding of the prehistoric man of that coun- 

 try during the bronze age, were the two figures, reproductions of a 

 warrior and a woman, dressed in the costume of the period, being a 

 reproduction of like objects possessed by the museum at Copenhagen. 

 The warrior wore a bonnet upon his head; it was round, and made of 

 double cloth ; no seams were shown. His body was covered with a 

 square piece of cloth coming down to the knees and bound around by 

 different straps and thongs, tied at the back. He wore a mantle upon 

 his shoulders which fastened at the neck with a fibula of bronze. His 

 feet were covered with sandals bound across the top with-cord ; he had 

 a leather belt, which was fastened with a button of bronze ornamented 

 with a piece of incrusted amber. On his arm was a gold ring, and he 

 held in his hand a sword of bronze. 



The woman wore upon her head a net, which was in a sufficient state 

 of preservation when found to enable them to imitate the fabrication. 

 It was made by simple interlacing of threads. Her jacket was a single 

 piece of stuff which was originally too short and had been added to — 

 pieced as it were. Her petticoat was made without being cut and was 

 sewed only to bring the two ends together. Her cloak, which fastened 

 with a hook, was ornamented in different colors, different designs being- 

 used in an ingenious manner of twisting the thread. All the jewelry 

 which she had — the collar, the clasp to her cloak, the bronze bracelet, 

 and the gold ring were reproduced in the forms which have been found 

 to be the most frequent. She carried by her side a small poniard in a 

 wooden scabbard. 



In the reproduction of these objects the inusee had employed the veri- 

 table bronze ; one part tin and nine parts copper. These dresses were 

 made by Madame K lein, director of the Academy of Art and Industries 

 for Women, who has studied them minutely in their original production, 

 and she and her scholars have produced them with minute exactness. 

 The color was the only thing about which there was doubt, for, be it 

 understood, that all these objects were found in, and came from, tombs, 

 and from having lain either in wooden coffins, or by contact with the 

 earth, have become a dark brown or possibly a black. I have one of 

 these pieces from the same place out of one of these tombs. The near- 

 est description I can give of its color would be a butternut. 



The age of iron was represented, a full series of the ethnography of 

 Greenland, together with all the books and specimens presented or 

 gathered by that celebrated and well-known ardent scientist and an- 

 thropologist, Mr. Soreu Hansen. One of the most important works 

 done by anthropologists in later years in relation to America has 

 been that accomplished by this gentleman, and he had at this display 

 an example of his work. Many years ago Lund, who was himself an 

 aid, being in the plains and caverns of Samidouro, Brazil, made some 

 anthropologic discoveries in regard to the prehistoric man, and being 



