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DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 
The collections brougnt together in the Department of Anthro- 
pology are intended mainly to illustrate the more primitive or 
uncivilized phases of the development of the human race, but 
certain other features relating to more advanced culture are intro- 
duced for purposes of comparison, or to present in a single view 
the evolution of some art or institution. 
There are two well marked divisions of this subject, and the 
materials illustrating them are separately installed. One relates 
to man himself, to his physical and mental constitution and 
powers, and the other to the works of his hands, to the visible phe- 
nomena of culture. The first division consists of apparatus used 
in studying the greatly varied physical and psychical phenomena, 
and of extensive collections of crania and other materials, objects 
and articles illustrating the races of men and their peculiarities. 
These exhibits are arranged in the gallery of the east court The 
second division, comprising very extensive exhibits of the handi- 
w^ork of man, are placed on the main floor of the south-east section 
cf the building. 
The works of living or historic peoples, are for the most part 
assembled according to the tribe or nation to which they pertain; 
those of prehistoric peoples are brought together in groups,accord- 
ing to the locality from which they are derived, to the people, 
time, or stage of progress they are thought to represent, or with 
reference to some other special subject to be illustrated. 
The various groups thus indicated are placed in the halls in 
an order or sequence corresponding as far as possible with their 
original geographic relations. In this way the various objects and 
articles, and through them the peoples represented, are conven- 
iently studied and compared. 
Other groups of art products are brought together to illustrate 
special subjects, or to facilitate comparative study in some impor- 
tant direction, as exemplified in the room devoted to the parapher- 
nalia of religion. 
