New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-12-07
AMONG THE COLLEGES
HARVARD.
rur WORK OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM,

sHsean Archaeology and Ethnology OF Harvard
H,-sitv an occasion will be given for reviewing
ne ~ work in this country OF more than National
oueuce and which the curator in his annual re
mort directly u oo F'N " WV
r.ey to neglect.
..n Professor Putnam was called seventeen years
=. succeed the lamented Jefrries Wyman I'm charge
- ara museum the collections, having outgrown the
& cases earlier assigned them had been arranged In
~ amer gallery of Boylston Hail. and at that time
LAM several important collections acquired during
- erSt eight years of It's growth. such was the
.stiop nv which the young archaeologist was In
80 10 the work since accomplished In developing
~ museum on the grander scale with enlargement
= .vsry direction, which is now shown Instead OF
s,s,ps over one small gallery and a workroom, he
r. IN his charge n building 100 feet long, and five
I - high as half OF the contemplated structure.
,n reason to expect the completion and entire equip
WIT Of the building within comparatively brief
period ,,, . ,..,,.. ....,,,.,,.s
,,.h the trustees of the museum may now award
.nnually to a student in the graduate school OF the
,vs-sitv entering this department preparatory for
an. higher university degrees Another gift is from
no,sr wolcott acting under the will OF his father,
. y Huntington wolcOtt OF $4,000 q memorial
:, his brother. Huntington rockingham wolcott.
soss name In connection with Harvard University Is
sims 10 be perpetuated. BY the terms Of the trust
a. income OF che sum is to be expended by the
.-,s,ees Of the Peabody Museum Of American Arch
o,orv and Ethnology, their successors, for the
r0moton Of archaeological and chronological research
~ sxploration the purchase OF illustrative collections
"a a. pubicatfon. The museum has received q gift
:, AGO from Mrs. Ester Hermann, OF New-Ierk, an
49, NJ 500 from James II. Jones, OF this city.
,yhution Of 500 has been sent by Mrs. leila Nuall
,Oe abroad The purchase OF the collection of copper
settlements from Mexico has been aided by GIFT OF
80 nom Major William S. Eeebe, OF Connecticut and
w Bsylies and the New England Telephone and Tele-
..nh Company are named among contributors
The establishment of n systematic course OF Study
a, archaeology and ethnology, uniting the museum
80 closely with the university brings this and other
..,.rments of the Graduate School on the same level
rnre graduate students In this division, OF whom
vo have entered the work Of second year and the
k az the first year Is begun by another two private
aents under the direction OF Professor Putnam are
n,snsring to make Investigations in this department
q, learning their nework. and 10 all these students
distraction is given In the laboratory and in the field
As chief Of the department OF archaeology and eth
,olory of the Worlds Columbian Exposition, Pro
,.xsor Putnam fortunately has been enabled to give
,roeptional opportunities for field work and research
m different lines of anthropologcal study. He has
my over thirty men and women employed in North,
Central and South America in such researches. Dur
ne the summer vacation several advanced students
a Harvard and Clark universities have worked among
the different Indian tribes, collecting anthropologch
data for the preparation Of charts illustrative Of the
CHARACTERISTICS Of the native people Of America. Dr.
Boas Of Clark University, is Professor Putnams chief
assistant in this special work. With other special
observations measurements OF some thousands OF In
dy1duals have been made in the course OF this re
search The materials for the representation OF cos
tunes OF the tribes visited have been collected at the
SANE tine. In May Mr.. Dorsey, a graduate student
m the museum, was sent to Peru, where he Is stl
making archaeological researches At Ancon, AREA,
and ON other sites he made extensive excavations. In
company with another party Of the Exposition he
visited the famous ruins OF Lake T1tcaca and is sup
posed now to be In the vicinity Of Cuzco continuing
bis researches. student assistant, Mr. Savile, VINO
holds the visiting committee fellowship has recently
started with the Honduras exhibition, having, under
Professor Putnam's direction, special charge OF the
ARCHAEOLOGICAL work. The preparation for this was IN
work N ONO for several seasons, under the same reia-
ions VIII the director of the museum, and again with
M. Tnompson's supervision in fucatan during .Iast
vtrte. His associate IN the Honduras expedition
now proceeding to the site Of the ruined ancient
dt Of Copan-is Mr.. Owens, a graduate stu
dent in the museum, who, In addition to a win
hrs work in the laboratory, was at the MoE
v1eblo as an assistant with DR.. Fewkes, OF the
Hamenway expedition, during the summer. This
year he holds the Hemenway Fellowship. Since
ast April Miss Fletcher the holder Of the Thaw Fellow
shin has been living with the Nez Perez Indians In
~
in severalty to the Indians of that tribe She Is I'M
moving the opportunity thus given in collecting objects
FOR the museum as also in observing the customs OF
the Indians and in the study OF their history their
legeIts and their mythology. The series by Mrs.
EutaIl for the museum publications, on the customs
Of the ancient Mexicans, is being advanced with her
researches in Europe where important material mas
been recently collected.
The activity directed from the Peabody Museum ex-
tends in many directions and, although this Is con
neced 10 a considerable extent with the Columbian
Exposition, Il is not the less of Importance In advanc
ing American archaeology. among these efforts 10
which Professor Putnam chiefly refers are the great
work of Mr. Thompson in Yucatan, in taking mouths OF
typical and interesting portions Of the great stone
structures win their deliberately carved ornaments the
research made by Mr. Volk the glacial gravels ana
their relation to early man Of the Delaware valley, the
explorations Of DR.. Metz and Mr. Moorehead in Ohio,
where interesting and important discoveries nave peeh
made by them ia mounds and burialpaces. The most
important work recently inaugurated IS that Of the
Honduras expedition, by which, if literally sustained,
gesi advance will be achieved in American archaic
0ogy. In July last the Government Of Honduras, by
special edict gave to the museum the charge OF the
antiquities Of that country for term Of ten years Ihe
exclusive night Of exploration under the protection OF
Tie Government is conceded, with the privilege OF con-
vtying TO the museum one-half Of the collection OBJ
tsined. The explorers expect 10 be rewarded by i'm
pcrtsn discoveries among the ruins OF Copan with It's
Immensely extended buildings of stone, its gigantic
neolhs with carv4hgs Of human figures in high relief
Ed Inscribed with heroglyphs Of which the significance
q Jet mystery. The work is animated by the hope
aa the task Of Interpretation will be accomplished by
nss Of the material in original specimens, casts and
Autographs which the museum is to collect and pre-
ave The money for the work Of the present season
kHondufss has been provided.
The Museum Building has been furnished with cases
The semitic department, and in May last the collec-
t1 acquired by the gift OF Mr.. Schln and from other
'01oes formally opened, and as this has been
hsnd an interesting and appropriate adjunct to the
o'e collections the plan previously suggested for the
hlaton Of a comprehensive archaeological museum is
yah considered. Tie in Of the galleries and