New-York tribune., 1905-05-10
CHANGES AT ART MUSEUM.
NEW TREASURES ON VTEW.
Prehistoric Huacal Instruments
ddams Vose IN Gold Room

Aie metropolitan Museum of Art has been closea
nay LOT Its annual spring cleaning but
1o-oay Is open again to receive visitors who ,II
i md there many new attractions Iupor+ant ddi-
uons have been made to the Morgan collectior ~
Chinese porcelains TO the Brown collection ~
= Enusical instruments. There IS fine reproduction
OF can ancient Egyptian Tyre from the Cairo Mn
scum new case of prehistoric instruments has
oeeh AIDED in which interesting specimens
1Iorl Fero' furnished by the American Museum of
NatnraI history. There are also renroductions Of
"4'isties made from the phaIanses OF the
itNeeI ana discovered in certain caves OF France.
80 OiisiaiaIs are in the ST. Gernlan Museum.
Other adoitons to The collection are exan,ples of
b four Siberian Instruments from, +h Crbrlobaa
uioe' near Behring Strait which closely re-
. sei'oIe nose OF the North American Indians of
Noi invest coast There also some new
1AI@SAsh Instruments and Aztec whistles
N the gallery devoted Egyptian pottery there
are new and important additions Resides the coll
Iecuoh OF $40 Egyptian antiquities known as the
sTian collection. and gift from D. O. Mills which
mas been scientifically rearranged one large case
contains for the first time specimens of Egyptian
pottery presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund
OF London There are los pieces three being ala
oaster' and all coming from one tomb and belong
Ing to one of the earliest dynasties.
among the changes in the arrangement of the
galleries made by George II. Story the acting di-
rector. is that by which the metal reproductions
from the imperial ecclesiastical and private collec
lions Of Russia have been transferred from Gallery
No p 20 Gallery No. 9. The purpose of this change
IS 10 exhibit the objects where they can be
a better advantage and while increasing the space
for paintings to make it possible to have the gal
leries Of paintings in uninterrupted succession.
among the new paintings The Last Voyage
Souvenirs Of the Ganges) by Edwin Lord Weeks
and the portrait of William NJ, Chase. by John S.
Sargent The former is II inches high and 1l6A
inches wide, The Last Voyage" may be de-
scrioed as follows:
A superstition exists among the pous Hindoos
left bank OF the Ganges River are blessed and
enter directly into Paradise, while those who pass
away on the opposite shores are cursed and their
souls are changed into long suffering donkeys
while corSe fans @ the old fsEir fax FO%S so tha aa he
may arrive soon enough to draw his last breath in
the shaqow of some temple steps and wooden plat
forms built over the stream facilitate bath
The devoat sir for hours Sheltered a. under le um
breIlas, dotting the shore IKE mushrooms. In the
where after death the bodies of the better classes
- are burned in The open.
A and valuable addition to the gold room is
the Adams gold vase which presented by
stockholders of the American Cotton Oil Company
10 Edward Dean Adams. trustee of the museum.
1n recognition of the talent the sagacity and the
rare ability he displayed in reorganizng that com
pany and thus saving it from certain ruin" Mr.
Adams has given the the museum
The vase Is fashioned of pure gold. parts
being also enamelled. The gold used in its
natural state. On the vase are modelled figures
representing Agriculture, Husbandry. Commerce
and Genius -Four falcons one on each corner, rep
resent Activity. The design is connected by fes-
toons OF leaves The body Of the vase is oval and
It's height nineteen and one-half inches. 1t Is
ornarnented with rock crystal, American gems and
American pearls The base of the vase is of petri-
fed wood from Arizona and the ease is made of
American woods. The artist is Pauldng Farnham.
OF Tiffany d Co.
= devoted TO American painters; In gallery No ZS
are shown bronze helmet and two bronze greaVes
OF raeco-Fctruscan Their value is both archse-
logical and historical They were discovered at
Monteleone di Spoieto OJmbria, near the old Etrus-
can city Of Nursa), the same spot. together
with the fragments Of the famous GrsRco-1truscan
Biga.