I 
ANTHROPOLOGY 
ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC 
The Museum's collection illustrating Philippine ethnology is the Philippine 
Islands 
Collection. 
largest and most complete in existence. Most of it was contained '^'^""^^ 
in the Philippine Exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition, a large part of 
which was purchased by Mr. Morris K. Jesup and presented to the 
Museum in 1905. The collection represents the life and industries 
of all the important tribes. It includes clothing and textile fabrics, 
household utensils, agricultural implements, fish and game traps, arms, 
houses, articles of manufacture, and boats and other means of trans- 
portation. 
The Philippine Exhibit was further enlarged in 1908 by 113 speci- 
mens collected by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, and a large collection of swords, 
knives, and spears, presented by Mr. Charles H. Senff. 
The most important specimen in the Hawaiian material is an Hawaiian 
elaborate feather war cape, known as the "Curran Cape," presented j^soo 
by Mr. George S. Bowdoin in 1908. 
A small ethnological collection was made by Mr. Rudolf Weber 
on a Museum expedition to the east coast of Sumatra in 1894. Sumatra. 
A general idea of the culture of the Samoan Island peoples is shown Samoan 
in the Zimmermann collection containing 99 specimens, purchased in 
1906. Among other things it contains a complete outfit for the manu- 
facture of "tapa" cloth, several handsome pieces of finished cloth, and 
a number of costumes, household utensils, and other implements. 
The life and customs of the various tribes in Central Australia Australia, 
are represented by 200 specimens which were gathered on the Spencer- 
Gillen Expedition of the National Museum of Melbourne, and acquired 
by this Museum through exchange. 
One of the most interesting exhibits from New Zealand is the New 
Robley Collection of Maori heads, which was presented to the Museum 
in 1907 by Mr. Jesup. Major-General G. Robley of the British Army, 
who made the collection, took an active part in the Maori campaign of 
1864-66 and spent several subsequent years in the covmtry. Gen. 
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