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Alcove 121. — Reproductions of objects of bronze, mainly 
from Pompeii, originals preserved in the Naples Museum. The 
balances, weights, cymbals and surgical instruments are especially 
notable, indicating how closely related are some of the appliances 
of the present day to those of the greatest of nations 2,000 years 
ago. In a small case are a few illustrations of European stone 
age art. The arrow points, spear heads and hatchets from eastern 
Italy can hardly be distinguished from corresponding classes of 
implements found in America. 
Alcove 122. — The wall cases contain an excellent series of 
images and other works of art in stone, bronze, wood, earthen- 
ware, etc., relating to the religious beliefs and observances of 
various oriental peoples. Buddhistic and Brahmanistic subjects 
predominate. This is a part of the Gunning collection. Forming 
a part of the same series are an elaborately wrought brass in- 
cense burner from Benares, India, and the model of a Japanese 
Buddhistic altar occupying spaces next the doorway. 
Alcoves 123 and 124 are devoted to plaster casts of 
Assyrian and Chaldean antiquities, which include a winged lion, 
a winged bull, obelisk of Shalmenesser, the Moabite stone and two 
colossal human figures, one being fragmental. Casts of some 
fine examples of bas-reliefs appear in Alcove 124. 
EAST COURT. 
ARCHEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OF NORTH 
AMERICA. 
This spacious hall is devoted in the main to exhibits relating to 
the archeology of North America; a few cases contain ethnological 
material, and four of the alcoves at the west end contain overflow 
exhibits from the Northwest Coast and Egypt halls. The central 
floor space has a middle line of cases holding important exhib- 
its of figure groups in plaster, mound models, etc., surrounded by 
table cases containing various groups of archeologic material. 
The installment of these exhibits cannot be considered permanent, 
as collections are being added from time to time. 
