ANTHROPOLOGY 

 Explorations among the Indian tribes of the Sierra Madre Mountains Lumho,tz 



Expeditions, 



in Mexico were carried on for almost four years by Dr. Carl Lum- 1892-1900, 

 holtz. Material was collected illustrating the life and customs of the ' ' 

 Cora, Huichol, Tarasco, Tarahumaras, and Tepehuana Indians. A 

 full series of ceremonial objects was obtained, together with data 

 showing their meaning. Photographs illustrating the types and 

 ceremonies, together with graphophone records of seventy Indian 

 songs, made the collection complete and of great value. In 1898 

 Dr. Ales Hrdlicka accompanied Dr. Lumholtz to collect material for 

 comparative study of the past and present tribes of western Mexico. 

 He made a series of anthropometrical records and observations on 

 the physical character of several of the Indian tribes. Plaster casts 

 were taken of twenty-six Tarahumaras and Huichols, and a number 

 of human skeletons and skulls secured from burial places and caves. 

 The notes and records obtained on this expedition proved of great 

 value and interest and formed the basis for two Memoirs and various 

 Bulletin articles. These explorations were begun with funds given by 

 Mr. Henry Villard, and later continued through the help of several 

 friends of the Museum, among them Messrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 

 Austin Corbin, Henry Marquand, James H. Jones, and Dr. William 

 Pepper. 



COSTA RICA 



The Museum has an excellent exhibit illustrating the archaeology 

 of Costa Rica. The nucleus of it was the collection made by Dr. 

 Francis C. Nicholas on an expedition in 1899, which was financed by 

 Messrs. William Mack, Willard Brown, I. Mel. Strong, and R. P. 

 Doremus. Through an exchange in 1908 the collection was enriched 

 by the addition of over 150 specimens of pottery and stone objects, 

 among which are some very rare forms. Another exchange with the 

 Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh added a few new forms and furnished 

 a rather complete series of small stone objects, especially amulets, 

 beads of jadeite, and other stones. 



The ethnology of the Costa Rican Indians is illustrated in a col- 

 lection obtained by Dr. Nicholas in 1901. 



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