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and the large house posts attached to the wall, was removed from Hall 

 67 and transferred to the West Annex, where it is no longer available to 

 the public. Again, the entire contents of Hall 66, consisting of a dozen 

 cases devoted to Polynesia, Micronesia, and so on, were transferred to 

 the West Annex. These collections also are no longer available to the 

 public. But more serious was the enforced withdrawal from public 

 exhibition of all the African collections, which now occupy a temporary 

 resting place in a hall in the West Annex. While the Department has 

 never maintained an expedition in Africa and while this African mate- 

 rial has been acquired in an indirect and, consequently, more or less 

 unsatisfactory manner, yet, from certain regions, the collections are of 

 importance and have distinctive value, and they certainly deserve a 

 better fate than to be placed in storage. The Philippine collections are 

 now completely installed and occupy Halls 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 54, and 

 57. During the year 15 Philippine cases were reinstalled — a necessity 

 because of the acquisition of new material — and the following cases 

 were installed for the first time: i Batak, i Ilocano, i Mangyan, 9 

 Ilongot, 4 Ifugao, i Tingian, i Igorot, i Amburayan Igorot, i Guinnan, 

 6 Mandayan, i Bagobo, and i Pulunan. Besides, special cases have 

 been prepared for certain spirit houses, planting sticks, and other ob- 

 jects requiring cases of special dimensions. A large group, to occupy 

 a case 1 2 feet square, showing various phases of activity of the Bagobo 

 represented by 7 figures modeled from life, is near completion and will 

 soon be ready for installation. In the Northwest Coast Halls, 4 cases 

 have been added — 3 Salish and i Chilcotin — of material presented to the 

 Museum by Mr. Homer E. Sargent. Besides these, 3 cases of Thompson 

 River material were reinstalled. To the Southwest Section have been 

 added 2 new cases of pottery from the Hopi pueblos, i case of Navaho 

 masks, 2 cases of Apache costumes, a case of Colorado River baskets, 

 and 3 cases of decorated pueblo shields and buffalo robes. The installa- 

 tion of this material has necessitated a certain amount of rearrangement 

 in Halls 2,3, and 7. Every case in the Gem Room containing ethnologic 

 material has been subjected to a careful revision, classification, and 

 labeling. In the Chinese Section installation has progressed in a satis- 

 factory and efficient manner. There have been 69 new cases installed, 

 besides three special exhibits requiring platforms or bases. The mediae- 

 val mortuary clay figures formerly shown on screens have been installed 

 anew on shelves, and being now exposed in full light, their attractions 

 can now be viewed and studied to best advantage. Five halls in the 

 East Annex were fully installed which with Hall 44 are now devoted to 

 East- Asiatic material. Hall 45 is mainly devoted to a display of the 

 ceramic arts, 4 cases illustrating in historical development the most 



