Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-29
PHILIPPINE EXHIBIT.
Museum to Ship it to the Exposition
at Seattle, Wash.

New York, March 2S.-A Philippine ex-
hibit has been completed by the American
Museum of Natural History at the re-
quest of the United States War Depart
ment. The exhibit, which has oenn set
up in a wing of the museum after rearly
two months of careful preparation, is
destined for the Alaska Yukon-Pacific rx-
position which opens at Seattle on
June l.
The work of packing the exhibition as
begun at the museum, and within 4 few
days the collection of Filipino nuts, i'm
plements of warfare, knives and cG los
will be shipped to Seattle, where il VIII
occupy the Philippine Building at the en-
position.
The exhibit as arranged at the museum
is in four sections. and it is intended to
cover the ethnology of the islands for
the last $50 years. Special attention has
been given to the agricultural and in
dustrial conditions since 1885, the date
of the American occupa on.
The first section represents the natural
resources and the primitive peoples; the
second, the development of the natural
resources under native initiative; the
third the development of the natural
sources under American influence. and
the fourth. the political and educational
development under American influence.
In the first section a NeSrito home is
shown. 1t is Il hut built of bamboo and
nipa. A Ncgrito huntsman stands in the
foreground, with bow in hand. while
near by is Negrito woman pounding
rice. On the opposite side is an Igorrote
hut of the early period
General household utensils. musical in
struments. clothing and personal orna-
ments are also shown. In a case are
several specimens of the Igorrote cigar
measuring from two feet to two and a
half feet in length.
In the second section are various house
hold utensils representing the mode of
living of the Moros. Among the articles
in the Moro collection are weapons, work
in brass betelnut boxes, cocoanut i'm
plements and gongs and drums. Elk
amples of weaving are displayed, green,
red and yellow predominating in the
beaded purses. sashes and gayly colored
turbans In the Visayan and Tagalog
cases are many specimens of fishing and
hunting implements.
Tortoise shells. manila, hemp, natural
products of minerals, gutta percha and
rice are shown in cases in section 3. In
case in this section are many crude
models of transportation in the far East
Here are outrigger boats. cascos, vintas,
native SledgeS and OK carts
The educational side of the exhibit is
shown in the fourth section by charcoal
and pencil drawings and basreliefs in
plaster and clay.
Suspended in bamboo trelliswork
around the hall are colored transpar-
encies which illustrate the life and habits
of the people represented in the exhibit
Among the subjects are the Igorrote
dance, a Visayan village. a pottery ven
der, Moro houses, Visayan belle, Baga-
bo warriors. a primitive cNtton gin, native
fishing boats, river scenes and a native
municipal school.
In the rotunda of the hall is suspended
a full sized outrigger boat containing the
figure of Moro fisherman with oar in
hand. On each post in the corridor of
the hall are busts of chiefs of the various
Filipino tribes. Guns given up by the in
surgents are stacked near the main en-
trance to the exhibit. and here may also
be seen long pointed spears formerly
carried by native warriors.
At the conclusion of the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition the exhibit will be re-
turned to the Museum Of Natural His
tory. where it will be permanently in
stalled.