

MUSK OX 65 
Grant’s caribou inhabits the barren ground of the 
extreme western end of the Alaskan peninsula. The type 
specimen of this species is in the Museum. 
Near by is a group of the Atlantic walrus. These huge mammals 
are relatives of the seals, inhabit the waters of the Far 
North and are still fairly abundant along the shores of 
Greenland. The seal and walrus are the animals which play such an im- 
portant part in the life of the Eskimo. From these animals come the 
principal food supply, skins for clothing, for fishing and hunting gear, 
boat covers, and harnesses for dog teams; from bones and tusks are made 
knives, bows, harpoons, and other hunting and cooking utensils. 
The specimens in the musk ox group were collected for the Museum 
by Admiral Peary in 1896. Musk oxen inhabit the snow- 
covered wastes of the Arctic barrens, living mainly upon 
willow leaves, dug up from under the snow. 
Note the various devices in the way of labels introduced to make the 
exhibits interesting and instructive. At the entrance attention is called 
to the principal causes influencing the distribution of mammals; on many 
of the labels are maps showing the range of the species shown, and near 
the group of mountain sheep is a label including a map and miniature 
models illustrating the species of North American mountain sheep and 
their range. 
Grant’s 
Caribou Group 
Walrus Group 
SOUTHEAST PAVILION 
Owing to lack of an appropriation, no additions have been made 
to the Museum building for the past ten years, and although a new wing 
was authorized and the excavation for the basement actually made, 
work was stopped in 1912. 
Owing to this fact, and the continued Hors of the Museum expedi- 
tions, all space in the Museum, and especially the storage rooms and 
work rooms, have become badly congested. When Mr. Akeley began 
the preparation of the group of African Elephants, intended as the 
central piece for the projected African Hall, it was necessary to clear out 
the Southeast Pavilion in order to provide necessary space; when the 
collections were received from the Congo Expedition, the collection of 
fishes was removed from the Central Corridor to the Bird Hall to furnish 
a little storage room. The beautiful Reptile Groups are installed in 
temporary quarters in the Central Pavilion, Second Floor, while nothing 
can be done toward exhibiting the collection of Mammals of the Sea, 
and the African Hall—the most beautiful and comprehensive museum 
exhibit yet devised—is still in the future. 
[Return to the Elevators and ascend to the Third Floor.] 

