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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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108 THE AM ERICA X MUSEUM JOURNAL will be reproductions of the magnificent life-like figures in the Tervueren Museum, near Brussels, and all will have the appearance of animation, as they will portray the natives engaged in hunting and in their ordinary peaceful occupations. ^Vhen the great number and diversity of the tribes in Central Africa, both in the valleys and on the uplands are considered, the scope for picturesque display may be realized. In addition to the ethnological specimens, M. I.iebrechts, secretary general of the Congo Department of the Interior, has promised the most complete data possible in the shape of photographs, statistical docu- ments and samples of exported products, together with the entire series of the scientific publications of the Congo Independent State. On its part, the American Museum of Natural History will send out expeditions to procure specimens illustrating fully the animal and plant life of this region. It will also collect all available data from independ- ent trustworthy sources, concerning the Congo State, its discovery, history, resources and administration, so that all sides of the question will be presented for the examination of those interested. The continent of Africa is being so rapidly opened up to occupa- tion by civilized peoples that it is of the highest importance, from the point of view of the ethnologist, that collections be made without delay illustrating the life and the histoiy of the savage and semi-savage tribes now living there. Hence the material recently received from the Congo, together with that which has been promised and that which had been obtained from East Africa and elsewhere will form an extensive and compreliensive collection which will probably, in a comparatively few years, l)e unicjue and of inestimable value. A COLLECTION FROM THE TUKANO INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA. HE Museum ac(;uired in September a large amount of ethnological material from the Tukuno Indians of South America, the result of an eight-month sojourn of the well known scientist and collector, Mr. Hermann Schmidt, among the almost uid-cnown people of the llio Caiary-Uaupcs, a trii)utary of the Rio Negro in the State of .\mazona.s, Brazil. The locality is so remote from civili- zation, and the difficulty and danger incurred in reaching it are so great.
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