USNM CURATORS ANNUAL REPORTS -- Department of Ethnology: Annual Report 1893 – 1894

The Smithsonian’s Department of Ethnology Curator in 1894 defined his role as determining “comprehensively and comparatively the American arts.” What did that work entail exactly? Find out in the 1893-94 annual curator’s report! Get the details about the department and the curator’s functions, and join other volunteers in transcribing this report!