"The museum intends to make groups of the impor¬ 
tant South American tribes. So far but one such group 
has been mad©, but it is one of the handsomest in the 
museum. It is of the Patagonian Indians and shows the 
family in readiness to move. The hunter in his skunk 
skin cloak, the mother on horseback accumulating the fami¬ 
ly belongings, th© child playing with the pet guanaco, or 
American ostrich, all are distinctive and all throw a 
strong light on the exact manner of people who inhabit the 
other end of the Americas. 
"The curators of the museum believe that these 
groups convey an understand ing of the nature of given 
peoples to the beholders more quickly than any other form 
of teaching ever devised. They have made these groups in 
such a way that they should last for centuries before 
falling into decay and can be copied when that time comes. 
So will these lifelike reproductions of the peoples of to¬ 
day and yesterday be handed down to the end of time to 
those that worry along after we, and the tribes modeled, 
have gone on to the happy hunting ground.” 
(Copyright, 1913, by W. A. Du Puy) 
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