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3. WHAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN CARING FOR THE COLLECTIONS UNDER YOUR CUSTODY, i.e., IN THEIR PRESERVATION AND INSTALLATION.
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It has been a source of embarassment to the curator in trying to administer the ethnological material of the Museum that the rooms in which the specimens were installed were not even contiguous. This fault has now been remedied with the following result. The north side of the museum, including the east and west halls, is devoted to ethnology and to arts and industries: 1. In the lecture room will be found the Catlin Gallery of paintings and the Chicago groups of lay figures all of them on North American subjects. 2. The northwest range formerly set apart for graphic arts is now devoted to American ethnology and in it will be displayed the exhibition series arranged by great culture areas. 3. In the northwest court, formerly devoted entirely to American ceramics, will be set up an exhaustive series to show the whole life of the pueblo region. It will be recalled that in this southwest corner of the United States there are five distinct linguistic stocks of Indians all living in pueblos. There are now twenty-one of these pueblos inhabited but hundreds have gone to ruin. Besides the cliff dwellings, cave dwellings and cavate dwellings in the cañons round about cannot be separated from the pueblos; indeed, the curator discovered in both the great