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the cultural classification of the several Indian tribes and by 



diagrams and index lists affording visitors a guide to the plans 



and details of the exhibits. For the European section of the 



Archaeological Hall a series of casts and restorations of the 



ancient types of man is nearing completion. 



During the year an unusually large number of students of 



design have made use of our Peruvian and North American 



_ .. . . , collections, indicating- a growing demand 



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for study material in primitive art. 

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There has been a corresponding increase 



in the number of anthropologists using our collections; 

 the most extensive studies by foreign anthropologists 

 were those by Dr. Felix von Luschan, Dr. Sigmund 

 Hatt, Dr. Bruno Oetteking and Mr. C. M. Barbeau. Several 

 of these investigators examined very extensive series of 

 ethnological specimens, giving an opportunity to test the 

 efficiency of our new storage system. So far, it has satis- 

 factorily met all reasonable demands. It remains now to put 

 the archaeological collections into an equally accessible form 

 and to provide for the normal expansion to meet the future 

 demands of students. 



Among the researches of the departmental staff may be 

 mentioned an analytic study of the technique and ornamenta- 



_ , tion of clothing in the Mississippi Basin as the 



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basis for a general discussion of historical prob- 

 lems and methods of interpreting data on material arts, and 

 a somewhat parallel study of the distributions of textile 

 designs and pattern names by the Curator, and the study of 

 fibers and processes as exhibited in Peruvian cloth by Assistant 

 Curator Charles W. Mead and Mr. M. D. C. Crawford. The 

 latter takes up the problem from an entirely new point of view 

 and will for the first time enable us to form a definite idea as 

 to the technique of Peruvian spinning and weaving. 



In addition to these special studies the time of the research 



staff as a whole has been given to the prosecution of field 



. . studies and the compilation of results. Cura- 



tor Goddard was occupied with special studies 



of the Beaver and Apache languages and during the summer 



visited the Gila River band of Apache in Arizona where he 



