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PLACEMENT OF COLLECTIONS.— The Department oc- 
cupies the North Court, the East Court, the east alcoves of the 
South Court, the southeast section of the main building, the 
southern series of halls of the northeast section, and the east 
and south galleries of the East Court. 
The North Court is occupied mainly by collections illus- 
trating the archeology of Europe. 
The East alcoves of the South Corut are devoted to over- 
flow collections of North American ethnology. 
The East Court and its alcoves contain groups of exhibits 
relating to North and South American archeology. 
In Hall O are installed American aboriginal games of 
skill and chance. Hall 9 is filled with Egyptian antiquities, and 
the halls on the north side (2, 4, 5, 6 and 7) are oceuuied bv 
collections illustrating the ethnology of Africa, Asia, Pacific', 
islands and of the Eskimo. 
The southeast section is devoted to the ethnology of Amer- 
ica. Hall IS or Ayer Hall is devoted especially to the collections 
donated by former President Ayer. These exhibits pertain 
largely to tribes of the great interior region. 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 Washington. 
Halls 14, 15, are devoted to the ethnology of California and 
tribes of the southwest respectively. Halls 16 and 17 are de- 
voted to the ethnology of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Halls 
30 and 31 contain collections illustrating the ethnology of South 
America, and Hall 33 is devoted to ceramics. 
The physical laboratories and collections illustrating physi- 
cal anthropology, occupy the galleries of the East Court. 
NORTH COURT. 
EUROPEAN ARCHEOLOGY. 
The central floor space and many of the alcoves of thi.= 
court are devoted principally to European archeology. 
CASES 1, 6 AND 7. — ^Contain the Johnson collection of 
reproductions of Irish antiquities, consisting of crosses, croziers, 
