The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . ANTHROPOLOGICAL BUILDING. is hoped that at the close of the Exposition the friends of sciencewill unite in carrying out this plan to endow the city of Chicagowith a museum of the natural sciences. Early in the spring of 1891 expeditions were started out underthe direction of the Chief of the Department to various parts of thecountry. Within the United States several exploring camps wereestablished to obtain new material to represent the archaeology ofthe Ohio valley with its many ancient earthworks, burial-places andvillage sites, and to make e
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . ANTHROPOLOGICAL BUILDING. is hoped that at the close of the Exposition the friends of sciencewill unite in carrying out this plan to endow the city of Chicagowith a museum of the natural sciences. Early in the spring of 1891 expeditions were started out underthe direction of the Chief of the Department to various parts of thecountry. Within the United States several exploring camps wereestablished to obtain new material to represent the archaeology ofthe Ohio valley with its many ancient earthworks, burial-places andvillage sites, and to make explorations in the Delaware valley toillustrate in the Exposition whatever can be learned of the earliestpeoples of the Atlantic Coast of America. Arrangements weremade for collecting ethnological material at different points in ETHNOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY. 417 British Columbia to represent the Hfe and customs and particularlythe religious ceremonies of the different tribes of that region. TheNorthern Crees of the Saskatchewan valley wer
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