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cases ; Admiralty Islands, 1 2 cases ; Fiji, 8 cases ; Chinese, 1 9 cases ; Tibetan, 

 14 cases. As regards American ethnology, one case of Apache medicine 

 shirts, one case of painted buffalo hides, two cases bearing on Paiute 

 ethnology from California and Nevada, and one case of Pima storage 

 baskets have been added to the Southwest Section, under the personal 

 supervision of Assistant Curator Owen. Hall 8 has been cleared of 

 nine cases of Borneo, three of Andaman and Nicobar, and one of Malay 

 Peninsula material, these thirteen cases being stored indefinitely with 

 the great nimiber of installed cases already on the floor of the East 

 Court. As Halls 2 and 3 have recently been devoted to the exhibition 

 of New Hebrides, Admiralty and Fiji ethnology of the Joseph N. Field 

 Collections, this arrangement resiilted in the necessity of removing the 

 following cases for storing in the East Court: three Sauk and Fox, one 

 Iroquois, one painted buffalo hides, two Apache, two Warm Springs, 

 three Shoshoni, one Klikitat, one Yakima, two Ute, two Wasco, one 

 Comanche, one Bannock, one Kutenai, one Umatilla, and two Nez 

 Perce. More than ninety boxes containing the Stanley McCormick 

 Hopi material have been unpacked in Hall 16. The material has been 

 classified and placed temporarily in new cases and storage bases, await- 

 ing permanent installation with the exhibits of Hopi ethnology which, 

 for the past fifteen years, have been displayed in Halls 15, 16, and 17. 

 In Hall 17 the Hopi Home Case has been completely overhauled, the 

 clothing renovated, and the five life-size figures repainted. Nine altar 

 cases in the same Hall have also been subjected to a most careful and 

 thorough examination and readjustment. 



Peruvian pottery, particularly from Chancay, and Egyptian tomb 

 tablets have been properly treated and cared for to insure their preser- 

 vation. About 400 photographs which had been stored in Hall 

 48 for many years have been identified as belonging to about thirty 

 tribes, and each lot has been placed in the cases where the respective 

 tribal group is represented. Many of these prints, varying in character 

 and quality, show scenes no longer obtainable, and before being perma- 

 nently installed in the various cases, should be copied on permanent 

 paper for exhibition purposes, while the old solio prints may be pre- 

 served for the Department albums. 



During the year Assistant Curator Lewis has installed thirty-two 

 cases of Melanesian material. These, with cases installed towards 

 the end of the previous year, include the collections from Fiji, the 

 New Hebrides Islands, and the Admiralty Islands. Assistant Curator 

 Cole cooperated with Dr. Lewis and superintended the installation 

 of the material from the Fiji Islands, which fills seven cases, illustrating 

 the clothing and ornaments, household utensils, weapons, and various 



