Smithsonian institution 
Bureau of American Ethnology 
Washington, December 16,1902. 
Dear Sir 
The plans of the Department of Anthropology of the Nation 
al Museum for an exhibit at St. Louis are, so far as laid out, 
about as follows: 
A series of exhibits covering the entire range of arts 
and manufactures of the native American peoples, so selected as to 
illustrate their artistic or esthetic development; the specimens 
chosen in each case to be the highest examples of their kind . 
The exhibit will include illustrations of architecture (models), 
water-craft (models), sculpture in its many branches, ceramics, 
weaving, metalwork, musical instruments, inlaying, pictorial 
art, pipes, ornaments, ceremonial art in its manifold forms, etc., 
- the whole to form a synopsis of the achievements of our native 
peoples, from the far north down through the United States, Mexico 
Central America and South America to Patagonia, 
The exhibit planned for the Bureau of American Ethnology 
as to consist of certain series of objects illustrating the re- 
searches of the Bureau, as for example, one of our ethnologists 
