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study in some important direction. This is exemplified in Alcove 
122, where numerous examples of religious art are assembled; in 
the North Court, which contains an exhibit of musical instru- 
ments; and in the South Court, which is devoted to aboriginal 
American sculpture. 
A large portion of the collections exhibited in the Department 
was made for the Department of Anthropology of the World’s 
Columbian Exposition. The completeness of this material makes 
it possible to illustrate the salient features of American primitive 
culture in prehistoric times as well as in modern times. The fol- 
lowing regions are especially well represented through this source: 
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Yucatan, Califor- 
nia, the North Pacific Coast, the Northwest Territories of Canada, 
Northern Alaska, Greenland, Delaware and Ohio. 
The primitive culture of the Indian has disappearaed rapidly 
during the last decade, so that at this date full collections can be 
made with difficulty only. The great collection of Mr. Ed. E. Ayer 
covers this ground quite fully, and fills a place in the Museum 
which would otherwise be imperfectly represented. 
Recent donations from the Smithsonian Institution and the 
Bureau of American Ethnology include models of Pueblo villages 
and ancient ruins, together with numerous ancient relics and 
modern utensils from the Pueblo region. There are also large 
series of implements and objects and models illustrating the arts 
of quarrying and mining and the manufacture of stone imple- 
ments by the Aborigines. 
The collections enumerated above are supplemented by the 
large and valuable collection of Emilio Montes of Peru; the col- 
lections exhibited by the United States of Colombia in the Colom- 
bia Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition; the Hassler 
collection from Paraguay; the Bruce collection from Alaska; the 
results of explorations conducted by the Peabody Museum in 
Honduras from 1891 to 1893; the Charnay collection of casts, from 
Central America, and the Berlin and Guatemala collections of 
reliefs. 
Among the larger collections from foreign countries must be 
mentioned the Finsch collection, from New Guinea; the Peace 
collection, from New Caledonia; the Remenyi collections, from 
South Africa; and the Schahovskoy collection, from Siberia. 
