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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (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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4 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL the chemical changes which have been undergone. The mine has been worked for an unknown length of time upon a peculiar deposit of atacamite, a hydrous chloride of copper, which is much prized on account of its easy reduction. The age of the mummy is unknown, but it is supposed to be pre-Columbian.
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THE SERIES OF ETHNOLOGICAL BUSTS. I"HE model of the bust, or rather the head and neck, of the young Filipino, illustrated on page 5, is one of an extensive series of typical portrait busts which the Museum has been assembling during the past eight years. The basis of the model is a mold, or mask, of the face taken from a living subject. The Museum now has more than five hundred such molds, together with the additional data necessary for producing the busts. A large number of complete busts has already been prepared. They are in use for study and for exhibition in the Museum and are in constant demand for exchange with other institutions. The greater part of the molds represent typical individuals of the North American tribes: the Indians of the Eastern Wood- lands, the Plains and Pueblo districts, California, the Pacific Coast and the Eskimo of the Arctic regions. Of Asiatic peoples the Aino, Chinese, Japanese and several Siberian tribes are well represented. Molds from the PhiHppine, African and South American native tribes who were at the St. Louis exposition are recent additions to the series. It is the purpose of the Department of Ethnology to make a collection in which all the physical types of man shall be repre- sented For many years the value of a collection of skulls from the different races has been appreciated, hvX the experience of investigators is that skulls alone give inadequate data for the study of a race, since differences in the form and size of the skull are not correlated with variations in the size and form of the head. The ideal method of studying the facial characteris- tics of a race is by means of direct measurement of living subjects. Since, however, such subjects are not always available, and an

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