HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 



Andrew 

 Ellicott 

 Douglass 

 Collection. 



Bishop 

 Collection. 



Emmons 

 First 



Collection, 

 $12,000. 



Emmons 

 Second 

 Collection, 

 $25,000. 



at about this time was that of Mr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass. It num- 

 bered 23,000 specimens, arranged to show synoptically the various 

 types occurring in North America. Mr. Douglass donated his entire 

 collection to the Museum in 1901. 



In 1882 Mr. Heber R. Bishop presented a valuable collection il- 

 lustrating the ethnology of British Columbia, gathered at his expense 

 by Dr. J. W. Powell, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in that Province. 

 It contained costly dresses, implements, carvings, etc. The large 

 Haida canoe from the Bella Bella Indians, on exhibition at the Museum, 

 was received in this collection. 



The collection of Lieut. G. T. Emmons, U. S. N., was presented to 

 the Museum by the Trustees in 1888. It contained nearly 1,300 speci- 

 mens illustrating the ethnology of Alaska. Each specimen was ob- 

 tained by Lieutenant Emmons himself and was accompanied by 

 records and full notes regarding the use made of each object by the 

 natives. 



This collection was supplemented in 1894 by the "Emmons Second 

 Collection," numbering 2,966 specimens, among them about 500 from 

 the Bering Sea and Siberia. 



The Department of Anthropology was reorganized in 1894, "in 

 order to illustrate the history of man in the same way as we are show- 

 ing the history of animal life." The Emmons and Bishop collections, 

 together with those of Sturgis and Terry, formed the most complete 

 collection of anthropological material in this country. The develop- 

 ment of the Department, however, had been somewhat neglected, for 

 Professor Bickmore, who was nominally in charge of it, had been en- 

 gaged in the development of the Department of Public Instruction 

 since early in the eighties. 



In 1894 the exhibition collection relating to man was confined to 

 what is now the "Shell Hall" on the fifth floor, and the western half 

 of the Bird Gallery on the third floor. There had been no systematic 

 explorations, no scientific publications. The Department has grown 

 until at the present time the collections occupy six large exhibition halls 

 and twenty-five storage rooms, and the scientific publications fill a 



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