General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . PHILIPPINE TREE HOI SE [155]. AN EMPERORS BIRTHDAY GIFT. An assemblage of elaborate carvings fashioned from purest white jade and fitted together Asiatic Collections (Index Plan, p. 19, Floor IV, Hall 6,also Hall 4, and , Floor III, Hall 6) The famous Drummond Collection ofcarved Chinese jade, amber, Japaneseivory, and sword-guards is in the South-west Tower on the fourth floor, openingout of the South Sea Islands Hall. Thismagnificent collection gathered by thelate Doctor I. Wyman Drummond andpresented to th
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . PHILIPPINE TREE HOI SE [155]. AN EMPERORS BIRTHDAY GIFT. An assemblage of elaborate carvings fashioned from purest white jade and fitted together Asiatic Collections (Index Plan, p. 19, Floor IV, Hall 6,also Hall 4, and , Floor III, Hall 6) The famous Drummond Collection ofcarved Chinese jade, amber, Japaneseivory, and sword-guards is in the South-west Tower on the fourth floor, openingout of the South Sea Islands Hall. Thismagnificent collection gathered by thelate Doctor I. Wyman Drummond andpresented to the Museum in his memory,is installed as a unit, largely accordingto Doctor Drummonds original arrange-ment. It is really a group of collections, eachone of the greatest importance andbeauty. The jade collection alone is arich and well balanced series, representa-tive of all periods and covering a culturalrange of more than thirty centuries. Theleft half of the room is devoted to jadearranged by periods while the right halfis given over to amber, ivory, lacquer andbronze sword-guards. The oriental am-ber dis
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