Jan., 191 2. Annual Report of the Director. 125 



at present, is expected to be devoted to overflow of collections from 

 neighboring halls or temporarily installed collections. Installation 

 of Chinese material of the Mrs. T. B. Blackstone collection has pro- 

 gressed favorably and material filling nine cases has been labelled and 

 attractively installed in double Halls 43 and 44 (which were until 

 recently occupied by the Department of Botany as a storeroom). 

 These halls have been thoroughly renovated and refloored. When 

 the new cases are assembled and accepted these halls will be opened 

 for public inspection. Besides these nine permanently installed cases 

 of Chinese material, there have been temporarily installed six cases of 

 Chinese bronzes. It is hoped that hall 45 will shortly be renovated 

 and put in proper condition for the exhibition of material of the Mrs. 

 T. B. Blackstone collection, which cannot be shown in the adjoining 

 Halls (43 and 45). The occupation of this hall for the above pur- 

 pose will soon be necessary. Hall 42, which has also recently been 

 used as a storeroom for botanical material, has been turned over to 

 Anthropology, and has been renovated, and will be used as a 

 Philippine Hall. The following Hopi altars: the Sakwa Lan (Blue 

 Flute), Lagon, Tao (Singer), Yasangwu (New Year) and Ahl (Horn), 

 have been reproduced by Mr. H. R. Voth under the Stanley 

 McCormick fund and are ready for installation; two other altars, 

 the Niman (Going Home) and Kwan (Agave) are advancing toward 

 completion. Needed accessories for certain altars previously con- 

 structed are also being prepared. Installation of Philippine material 

 to the extent of sixteen standard cases, forming parts of the R. F. 

 Cummings expeditions, have been installed. A group containing 

 ninety-three miniature figures illustrating a Bontoc Igorot village 

 and various phases of the life and industries of the natives, such 

 as social and ceremonial life, blacksmithing, carpentering, basket weav- 

 ing, spinning thread and weaving cloth, pottery making, pounding 

 rice, feeding pigs, man and woman's transportation, and architecture, 

 will shortly be placed on exhibition. A group of life-size human 

 figures, representing pottery making by the Igorot of the Samoki 

 village of the Bontoc Igorot has also been completed in detail. 

 This group represents three adults and one child. These two groups 

 are the work of Modeler Gardner. Arrangements are being perfected 

 for installation of the stone Egyptian sarcophagus and of a life-size 

 stone figure of the Goddess Sehkmet. Owing to the great weight 

 of these two objects, it is necessary to reinforce the support of the floor 

 during the progress of these specimens to their exhibition localities 

 in Egyptian Hall. There have been removed from temporary instal- 

 lation upward of 500 Moro specimens which will be installed in 



