ANTHROPOLOGY 
Explorations amonar the Indian tribes of the Sierra Madre Mountains Lumhoitz 
° Expeditions, 
in Mexico were carried on for almost four years by Dr. Carl Lum- 1892-1900, 
$13 960 
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 Hrdhcka 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. McI. 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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