1893.] Archeology and Ethnology. 911 
prise to see in the display of this little country, sloping shelves, three 
or four feet wide, covered with black velvet, running along an entire 
side of the room, however, within glass cases which were abundantly 
guarded, and dotted over this black velvet were gold objects to be 
counted by the hundred—how many there were, I do not know. There 
were parts of two collections, one of which cost in Colombia, $75,000, 
and the other, that of Don Restrepo, who was present representing his 
country at Madrid, which cost $30,000. I, as Curator of my Depart- 
ment, had selected my little display of gold ornaments and taken them 
to Madrid, intending them for exhibition, but when I saw this magni- 
ficent and glittering display of prehistoric gold ornaments from this 
little country, I decided I could never put mine on display, and, upon 
preparing for my return, carefully packed them up and brought them 
home with me, and they are now displayed in their usual place in my 
department of the Museum. 
exico.—She is our neighbor at home and she was our neighbor at 
the Exposition. She occupied about the same number of rooms as we 
did. While she had more objects, they were smaller and did not take 
so much space. I give the nearest sketch of some of the objects pre- 
sented by Mexico, principally from memory: Models and reproduc- 
tions in plaster, paper or staff of several of the principal monu- 
ments of their country. All that we have in our Museum of the 
Abadiano and Lorillard Collections were thus represented, if I may 
except the Calendar Stone, which unfortunately met with an accident 
well provided against, but which wrought its destruction. The 
monument was natural size, the same as we have in our museum, 
and was made of paper pulp; to guarantee safe carriage it had been her- 
metically sealed and soldered in a case of sheet lead, and this, with the 
necessary protecting straw, etc., was, in its turn, placed in a wooden 
box. It was brought by ship and landed at Santander. The attempt 
to bring it down through Spain by car, proved it to be too large to pass 
through tunnels and similar narrow places, and it therefore had to be 
brought by wagon. Atsome part of the voyage it was necessary to move 
or change the object, and for that purpose wooden strips had been 
nailed along the sides of the case to be used as handles. When placed 
on the wagon for transportation, these strips were pulled off and the 
nails by which they had been fastened, pulled out, leaving nail-holes 
upward and exposed to the weather. It rained upon the load nearly 
every day of the transport across the mountains, and enough water 
trickled through these nail-holes to dampen, then wet, and finally de- 
stroy the paper pulp of which the model was made, and when it was 
61 
