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 ethno- 
logical 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 
exhibits 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. 
Case 1 .— Beginning at the west we have, in the middle line, 
a group of three Indians, executed in plaster and elaborated with 
much detail. They are represented as engaged in the work of 
quarrying bowlders and roughing out stone implements from 
them. Associated with this group are five cases illustrating the 
ancient flint, copper, soapstone and red pipestone quarries of the 
United States. 
Case 2 . — A set of plaster casts representing the various 
types of stone implements found in America. This is a donation 
from the Smithsonian Institution. 
Case 3 . — Quarry shop refuse, Arkansas. 
Case 4 . — This remarkable exhibit consists of some 7000 rough 
shaped flint disks found as a hoard or cache in a small mound on 
Hopewell farm, near Chillicothe, Ohio. The flint occurs in the 
form of irregular nodules at various points in the Ohio valley be- 
tween Cincinnati and Cairo. The disks were roughed out and 
carried long distances to be stored for trade or use. Five of the 
associated table cases contain archeologic material of exceptional 
interest, found in the mounds of the Hopewell group, explored for 
the World’s Columbian Exposition by W. K. Moorehead. Notable 
among these relics and deposits are casts of copper implements 
and ornaments, the material having been obtained from the shores 
of Lake Superior; a case of obsidian implements, many of them 
broken by the heat of altar fires, the material having been derived 
from the west or south 1,500 or 2,500 miles away; mica from the 
Appalachian Mountains, and shells from the Gulf or South Atlantic 
Coast. Come of the carvings in stone and bone are unique and 
