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Placement of Collections. — The Department occupies 
the North Court, the East Court, the South Court, the southeast sec- 
tion of the main building, the southern series of halls of the north- 
east section, and the east and south galleries of the East Court. 
The North Court is occupied mainly by collections illustrating 
the archeology of Europe, with overflow exhibits from the Asiatic 
section on the east side. 
The South Court is devoted to large objects, mainly reproduc- 
tions of Central American antiquities and a series of totem poles 
from the North Pacific Coast. 
The East Court and its alcoves contain a somewhat varied 
group of exhibits, the larger part, however, relating to North Ameri- 
can archeology. Some of the alcoves have overflow exhibits from 
neighboring halls. 
Hall 2 contains casts of Assyrian and Chaldean antiquities. 
Hall 3 is filled with Egyptian antiquities, and the rest of the halls 
on the north side (4, 5, 6 and 7) are occupied by collections illus- 
trating the ethnology of Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands. 
The southeast section is devoted to the ethnology and arch- 
eology of America. Halls 10 and II contain collections from 
the Eskimo of Alaska, Labrador and Greenland; these exhibits 
overflow somewhat into Hall 18 or Ayer Hall, which is devoted 
especially to the collections donated by President Ayer. The lat- 
ter exhibits pertain largely to tribes of the great interior region, 
the Pacific states and British Columbia. Halls 12 and 13 contain 
exhibits from the Northwest Coast, beginning at the southwest with 
South Alaska, and ending at the northeast with the State of Wash- 
ington. 
Halls 14, 15, 16 and 17 are devoted to the ethnology and 
archeology of South America. 
The psychical and physical laboratories, and collections illus- 
trating physical anthropology, occupy the galleries of the East 
Court. 
