LAY ffIGUP.E ETKIUC GROUPS Off THE RATIONAL MUSEUM 
(Extracts from an Illustrated article (5 groups) in 
The Sunday Star, August 24, 1913) 
(See Annual Reports of Museum) 
"The American scientist has proven himself as ef¬ 
fectively original as the American of any other calling 
and his ingenuity came to the front with a scheme for get¬ 
ting these changing peoples on record. This scheme has 
since been most thoroughly worked out and proved so ef¬ 
fective that it is now in use in practically all the 
great museums of the world. 
"This new idea of the American ethnologist was to 
crystallize into permanent form a family group of all 
the important peoples. This group should be cast, life 
size, into some permanent material. The members that go 
to make up the group should be shown at their customary 
activities. They should be clad as when seen at home. 
The scene should be set as though the pages of history 
were turned back to the time when these people lived un¬ 
trammeled by a higher civilization and foreshadowed by 
higher peculiarities of the time and place that they for¬ 
merly occupied. 
"The first of these groups was made and exhibited 
at the world*s fair at Chicago. Dr. William H. Holmes, 
a curator in the Rational Museum, originated the idea and 
developed the groups. Dr. Holmes is a scientist and an 
artist. He is one of the great men in ethnology in America. 
