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to a liberal gift received from Mrs. Henry Clay Frick for this 

 special purpose. 



Collections illustrating the life and culture of Pacific Coast 



tribes as far west as the Amur River, Siberia, and in the region 



extending from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Lena 



revious Ri ver and the Arctic Sea were secured between 



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Expeditions ^97 and 1903 by the Jesup North Pacific Expedi- 

 tion. This was planned by the late Dr. F. W. 

 Putnam, and the late President Morris K. Jesup provided the 

 funds necessary for a thorough investigation of the tribes of the 

 North Pacific Coasts of Asia and America, in order that the 

 physical and cultural relationships of thesei tribes might be 

 determined. Under the direction of Professor Franz Boas, 

 several parties, headed by Dr. Berthold Laufer, Dr. Waldemar 

 Jochelson and Dr. Waldemar Bogoras, went into the field between 

 1897 and 1903. 



Ethnological investigation in China was first undertaken in 

 1901 by the East Asiatic Expedition, also under Dr. Berthold 

 Laufer. Mr. Jacob H. SchifFs liberal contribution of $18,000, 

 and other generous gifts from Messrs. Edward D. Adams, 

 Cornelius N. Bliss, Henry C. Frick, Edward H. Harriman, 

 George A. Hearn, Morris K. Jesup, Clarence H. Mackay, James 

 H. Smith, Samuel Thorne, and the Union Pacific Railroad Com- 

 pany, enabled Doctor Laufer to remain in China three years, 

 and to make a systematic collection covering various aspects of 

 the social and industrial life. 



A summary of our expeditions to Asia is as follows: 

 Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1903. 

 East Asiatic Expedition, 1901-1905. 

 First Asiatic Zoological Expedition, 1916-1917. 

 Second Asiatic Zoological Expedition, 1918-1919. 

 Third Asiatic Expedition, 1921- 



Our collections of Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan ethnology 

 have been enriched by a number of valuable specimens, including 

 especially a Tibetan "sacred apron" made of portions of human 

 bones, found by a British officer of the Younghusband Expedi- 

 tion to Lhasa in 1903-1904, and presented to the Museum by 

 Mrs. John Magee; also a large collection of ethnological speci- 



