The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-05-24
ETHNOLOGY AT THE FAIR.
HIGH RESULTS OF TWO YEARS
WORK IN THE WESTERN WORLD.
One Hundred Assistants of Professor
Putnam Make Collections From
Greenland to TERRA del Fuego.

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to collect material for the Chicago
Worlds Fair. The work has been re.
markably successful. It has been in
charge of Professor Putnam, of the Pea
body Museum, Cambridge, aud about
100 assistants have carried out the nec-
essary researches in the field. In his re-
cent report on the Peabody Museum,
Professor Putnam gives a summary of
the results of the work that has covered
more extensive field of the anthropolog-
ical research than was ever covered be-
fore in two years.
Professor Putnam mentions first
among the results, the collections
brought back by Lieutenant Peary from
the little tribe of Eskimos in the Whale
Sound region of Greenland. A member
OF the party is about to go to Chicago
from this city for the purpose OF arrang-
ing the collections which will represent
Lieutenant Peary's work at the big Fair.
The specimens include summer houses OF
skins, Eskimo boats, sledges, weapons,
implements, utensils, ornaments, full
sets of their garments, carvings in ivory,
and also several hundred photographs
of individuals of the tribe aud scenes il.
lustrating their daily life. There will
also be complete census of the tribe,
several crania, and full set of anthropo-
logical measurements and observations.
The Worlds Fair is also to have tho
benefit of an Eskimo settlement. The
Skiles expedition to Labrador brought
back fifty natives of that country,
who will occupy an Eskimo village on
the Fair grounds with all their belong
ings until the Fair is over.
Doctor Sheldon Jackson has been
making large chronological collections in
Alaska, and among the coast tribes of
Siberia, and Mr.. Cherry has made long
journey up the Yukon Valley to collect
specimens illustrating the life aud handi-
work OF the Yukon tribes. Seven other
assistants have been forming collections
among the coast tribes between the
Columbia River and Alaska, aud par
tlcularly in northern Vancouver aud the
Queen Charlotte Islands.
The interior tribes of Canada will all
have living representatives on the Fair
| grounds by permission of the Canadian
| Commissioner of Canadian Affairs. Tue
Canadian Fair Commission has exerted
itself to secure an excellent representa-
ton of the arch@ llogy of Canada.
Nearly oil the Indian tribes of the United
States have been visited by students
from Harvard and other universities for
the purpose Of collecting chronological
material and data relating TO the physical
characteristics of the tribes. The Com.
missioners of this State have assisted
Professor Putnam to secure large arch
geological collection anu complete rep
resentation of the Iroquois tribes
Families from these tribes will live on
the Expositson grounds in bark houses,
such as were in use when this powerful
Nation first came into contact with oul
race.
A good many interesting things con-
Dected with the period of Cortez have
been found in Mexico and will be seen at
the Fair. The ancient ruins of Yucatan
have been specially explored 10y Consul
L. II. Thompson. He made about 10, 900
square feet of moulds of portions of the
ruined buildings, showing the facades,
parts of corners of structuree, the door
ways aud other features. He also
moulded both sides of the famous portal
at Labna. Casts have been made from
these moulds, and there will be seen on
the Exposition grounds fac-slmiles OF
these eIaborately carved stone struc-
lures of Yucatan, over and around which
will be the tropical plants native to the
region of the ruins.
An expedition was sent to Honduras
to study the ancient ruins of Copan, and
though the work has not been CON-
pleted, many interesting aud important
objects, illustrating wonderful carvings
in stone, fragments OF pottery, numerous
ornaments of stone, shells aud bone
stone implements, and so on, have beer
secured. Further south G. A. Dorsey
made extensive explorations in Ecuador,
Peru and Bolivia, where he collected q
large amount of this material. Lieuten.
ants Ssgord aud Welles secured many
series Of garments, weapons and othel
objects illustrating the tribes OF parts o
the interior of South America. Ever
Patagonia aud TERRA del Fuego hav,
been drawn upon for collections.
In the United States the archG illogical
work of the past two years will be fully
represented. Ancient village sites, buria
places, and workshops OF quarries have
been brought to light in the Delaware
Valley and carefully studied. Similar
fruitful researches have been made on
Cape Cod, in Connecticut, along the An
droscoggin, aud in many other places
Two singular burial places were found
in the Androscoggin Valley, in which
the graves were so old that the skeleton,
had entirely disappeared, leaving in tn,
graves only masses Of red ochre aud i'm
plements and other objects of stone.
Doctor Franz BJas and his assistants
have prepared presentation OF the physi
cal characteristics of the native American
peoples. Measurements have also been
taken aud observations made of more
than 50, 600 children ia the public schools
of the United States aud Canada, as well
as in the Iudian schools aud OF many
colored children. The corporation OF the
authorities in Japanese aud Hawaiian
schools was also secured, aud we thu
have the measurements Of japanese aud
Kanaka children for com larisou.
There is no doubt that the ethnolo
gical features of the Worlds Fair will b.