Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-06-16

Man lived in the glacial period, IS the col
| lections show. There are relics of that
| chilly time as we'll as specimens from the
shell heaps OF Maine and Florida.
| The Peruvian finds include the best assort-
| ment of mumInies ever unearthed on this
contirent. The peculiar methods of burial
| are shown. In some of the graves were found
work baskets, beads, flags and, most import
| ant Of all, bags of peanuts. showing what the
| Peruvians did with people addicted 20 the
| peanut habit.
From Guatemala are life size models of
natives in correct costume with original OK
naments and trinkets.
! The anthropological laboratories show an
! immense quantity OF instruments and appa-
ratus. This end Of the department is sub
divided into anthrOpOlOgy, neurology and
psychology. Anthropological tests will be
applied to the visitors on the payment of a
small fee. They will be measured weighed
and all the statistics Obtainable about them
selves noted on card. They will also, if
they are women, be able to see wherein they
differ from the shape OF the Venus de Milo
and remedy the defects
Whenever Professor Putnams associates
get hold of an aboriginal person they meas
ure him. series of results obtained by
measuring skulls and skeletons have been
coliated and placed on charts. Fifty thou
sand school children have been examined
and described Seventy-fve men worked
two years measuring nearly twenty thousand
Indians. They thus found one use to which
an Indian could be put.
In the archaeological division. to which
reference has been made, are arranged geo.
graphically the shell heaps. ancient villages,
mounds. earthWOrks and pueDlOs, making
very picturesque sight. In the great earth
works of Ohio there are combined squares,
octagOnS and circles, which are shown by
maps. Inc great mound at CahOkia. ILL.,. is
nearly 100 feet high, and the Serpent mound.
of Ohio. is 400 feet long. These, as we'll as
Fort Ancient. the largest ancient fertilization
IL the country. and the Turner and Hopewell
groups are represented pictOrially. One SUBJ
division of the section contains such special
exhibits as stone implements, pottery. orna-
ments and pipes.
Every material exempiifylng primitive
modes OF life, customs and arts OF the native
peoples of the world is in the chronological
section, and it illustrates the pecuiarities of
the different races. AS a contrast to the wild
Indians in their primitive state the United
States Government makes special exhibit
OF its Indian school system.
The tribes of Indians have prepared col
lectiOns of articles relating to themselves
which are entered for competition. These
are not exclusively of an chronological char
acter but will deal with their modes of life,
thought and industry
In the department of natural history New
York State again takes the lead. The Wards
Natural Science Museum, of Rochester. has
an exhibit which Professor Putnam says is
perfect. 1t shows every form of animal life
from sponges to man" Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Colorado send the birds and NAM
mails found in those States.
In the line of documentary exhibits are
found charts and maps of the world anterior
to the voyage Of Columbus and at different
periods since. There are physical anthropo-
logical statistics and criminal statistics. All
the books in the library after the Fair will go
to the Memorial Museum of Science of Chi
caGo.
A creditable reproduction OF Fort Dearborn
IS shown. This. as almost ry one knows.
was the nucleus around which the city OF
Chicago was built. Somewhat in the same
style of architecture is an Did log cabin of
the country type of a hundred years ago,
containing some forefather; in fac-simile,
dressed N the costumeof the colonial period.