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12. PLEASE PRESENT ANY PLANS WHICH YOU MAY HAVE IN VIEW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR DEPARTMENT.

[[margin]] ^[[Copy made for Mr. True Sept.30-96]] [[/margin]] The Curator would respectfully make the following suggestions to the Director with regard to the development of the Department of Ethnology. First, hereafter collections from the American Continent should be made with especial reference to completing, as far as possible, illustrations in things of the technical life of all the principal tribes and families of America. [[circled]] A list of these families, so far as they are known, is here appended. The information is derived from the 7th Volume of the Bureau of Ethnology Report by Maj. Powell and from the American Race by Dr. D. G. Brinton and other sources. [[/circled]] ^[[X X X X]]

In order to understand the true life of the aboriginal tribes of the Western Hemisphere, this Museum ought to contain a typical specimen from each of them belonging to every one of the great domestic industries; for instance, there should be a model of every kind of house ever lived in by any large number of people on this continent. There ought to be in miniature, in picture or in description the prevailing and customary furniture of the kitchen, the dining room, the bed room, the living room and the social gathering room or its equivalent in-doors or out-of-doors in every one of these^[[|]]collections. There should be in picture, in miniature or in actual specimens every kind of costume worn by a large number of individuals in every one of these tribes. Of course, it would be impossible to represent, in such a collection all the little eccentricities of dress among savage people^[[,]]where great varieties prevail among individuals of the same family. After all and every tribe there is a composite dress, a dress which would take in pretty much all the dress of the tribes, and of this typical dress there should be one full example from each tribe in this Museum.

There should also be gathered the common tools of all those tribes for all sorts of purposes; for pounding, for cutting, for boring,