USNM CURATORS ANNUAL REPORTS -- Department of Ethnology: Annual Report 1896 – 1897

In an extensive collection like the Smithsonian Department of Ethnology’s, what kinds of new discoveries can be found? In 1896-97, a number of new ideas emerged from the ethnology department specimens! Learn more about the discoveries that the Department of Ethnology made in this annual curator’s report—then transcribe this report and help a new set of discoveries emerge!