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SYNOPTIC GUIDE

The Museum of Anthropology, devoted to the “History of Man
and his \Vorks,” an integral part of the University of California,
was founded by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, organized in 1901, and
opened to public exhibition in its present temporary quarters at
Second and Parnassus Avenues, San Francisco, in 1911.

The collections comprise some 70,000 objects, about half of
which are on exhibit, the remainder being stored on account of
lack of display space, A complete catalog would ﬁll volumes, and
would be useless to any but profeSSional students. About 5000
labels have been placed with the exhibited specimens, but even
these require many hours to peruse. This guide has accordingly
been prepared for the accommodation of visitors whose time is
limited and who prefer to examine a small number of selected
objects of unusual interest rather than to search these out among
the thousands of other specimens.

The 175 works or art and objects of historical interest here
described have been marked with their numbers in conspicuous red
ﬁgures. The sequence of numbers in each hall is from left to right,
beginning at the entrance and returning to it. Labels containing
fuller information than could be included in this list, have been
placed with many of the objects enumerated.

The museum is open to the public on Sundays and holidays
from 10 to 5 o’clock, and on week days from 10 to 4, except on
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LIST ‘OF OBJECTS

IN FRONT or BUILDING

Forty-three foot Haida totem poleha coat of arms revealing
the descent of a chief and his wife.

PHILIPPINE EXHIBIT: MAIN VESTIBULE

. Kris and barong,_ the ﬁghting weapons of the “arlike \Ioros.

. Wavy kris, the most terrible of swords.

. Beheading knife, part of the outﬁt of a chief’s retinue.

. Igorot head- hunter’s shield—for defense, tripping, and decapi~

tation. ‘

. Native brass helmet, a picturesque modern survival of six-

teenth century Spanish armorial style.

. Moro armor—a medley of primitive buﬂalo horn plates with

civilized brass links.

. Moro chief’s gaudy and symbolic battle ﬂags. (On upper

landing.)

. Filipino head-gear—a diﬂ’erent hat for every tribe and station

in life. (On upper landing).

MAIN VESTIBULE

Verestchagin’s famous “Blowing from the Gun” in the
Sepoy Rebellion, an unforgettable painting of one of the
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EGYPTIAN HALL: ROOM 4
The God Osiris—Egyptian judge of the dead.

Splendid examples of the decorated mummy-case sarcophagi
of Egypt.

An Egyptian girl who died 2100 years ago; mummy in band-
ages and coﬁin.

Original examples of the most completely lost of the great
arts: Greek painting. Portraits of Greeks living in Egypt.

A precursor of the printing press: block letters for stamping,
250 AD.

Ushabtiu—images of workmen placed in tombs to labor for
the deceased in the next world. '

Slender bracelets of ﬂint, one of the difficult achievements of
human industry. ' I

One of the most perfect examples of Egyptian relief and
hieroglyphic art: offering slab of Prince \Vepemnofret.

The poor man’s cofﬁn in ancient Egypt: rods and baskets.

Alabaster jars, revealing the exquisite taste and workmanship
of 5000 years ago.

Two-piece jars of stone, cemented so ﬁnely as scarcely to show
the joint.

Mummy of sacred crocodile. Crocodile mummies of this sort
often contain papyri with writing.

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“Aaron ’5 rod”—a mummiﬁed sacred serpent of the Nile.

Coﬂ‘ins of sycamore wood, joined with wooden nails.

. Figured pots from the period before Egypt had Pharaohs, 5500

years ago. Paintings of ostriches prove that this bird was
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26,- Sacred and symbolic Canopic jars, a set of four containing the
viscera of a mummy.

27. Wooden model of ancient boat and crew, placed in a tomb for
the use of the soul of the dead.

28. Head of Ka—nofer, one of the most perfectly modelled speci-
mens of the Egyptian sculptor’s art.

29. Realistic limestone statuettes of female slaves grinding grain;
excavated at the Great Pyramids.

30. Sennuw and his wife, of 2800 13.0.: a painted double statue.
One of the ﬁnest and most lifelike examples of the art of
ancient Egypt.

31. Square oﬁ'ering sacrifice basin of Sennuw, priest of Cheops,

builder of the greatest of the Pyramids.

32. Bowl of ultra-hard stone, with edges folded as if of wax.

33. Sacred crocodile mummy, with embalmed young on its back.

34. Mummies of sacred cats once housed in a temple precinct.

35. An intimate human reminder of the remote past—mummiﬁed
foot of a high-born Egyptian girl.

36.» Papyrus manuscript.

37. Stone head-rest, for use of the dead.

ALASKA INDIAN COLLECTION: MAIN VESTIBULE
- 38. Life-sized carving of a medicine-man, a funerary memento.

39. Dog sleigh, toboggan style, capacity 1000 pounds.

40. Dancing mask showing a human face paralyzed on one side,
remarkable for its anatomical accuracy.

41. Wooden boxes used as cooking pots: made of a single board
and bottom.

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Fighting armor of elk hide and of rods.
Wooden ﬁsh-hooks, a skilful device for taking halibut.
Pair of gigantic totem ﬁgures, supports for the door of a
Kwakiutl house.
MAIN STAIRWAY AND LANDING

Artistic locks, keys, hinges, and knockers wrought by the
sixteenth century smiths of old Nuremberg.

Aztec hieroglyphic map-painting, depicting scenes from the
conquest of Mexico by Cortez.

Philae, Egypt, from the Arabian Hills.
Madonna and Child, by an unknown painter. Typical of
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PLAINS INDIAN COLLECTION: ROOM 11

War bonnet, typical Indian battle array.
Buffalo robe, the 'Indian‘s ceremonial garment.
White girl’s scalp, taken and mounted by an Indian.

Satanta’s shield, a historic weapon used in battle by three
generations of warriors.

Complete working model of tepee.

Kiowa winter-count, one of the few authentic Indian calendars
still in existence.

“Bullet-proof” ghost dance shirt, stripped from a victim of
the battle of Wounded Knee.

Blackfoot warrior ’3 suit, with ermine and scalp trimmings.
Sioux Indian ’3 suit, fringe of human scalps.

Blackfoot woman’s dress—four pounds of buckskin and seven
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61. Tomahawks—a set of specimens illustrating the evolution of
this interesting type.

62. Group of smoking pipes, the Indian ’3 symbol of religion, peace,
fellowship, and council. '

ASIA COLLECTION: ROOM 12

63. The Thunder God of Japan in his most demoniae aspect.

64. Two-man “jingal” musket, still in use during the Boxer
rebellion. '

65. Scimitars and helmets of old India, rivalling the world-
famed steel of Damascus in keenneSS of blade and richness
of pattern.

66. The Taj Mahal in perfect miniature of alabaster. The crown-
ing glory of Saracenic Hindu architecture.

67. Chain armor from the Holy Land.

GREEK AND ROMAN HALL: ROOM 13
68. “Square urn” for the ashes of the dead. The Latin inscrip-
tion is translated in the label.

69. One of the largest “kraters” in existence—a wine mixing
bowl holding 30 gallons.

70. Ancient portrait bust of Julius Caesar.

71. Augustus, founder of the Roman empire, and Trajan, the con-
‘ ' queror emperor, in contemporary marble.

72. Women milling, baking, and nursing—a rude picture of
domestic life in Cyprus 4500 years ago.

73. Roman glass, made in Syria, the ancient center of the industry.
The inimitable iridescence is produced by long burial.

74. Tear ﬂasks, used by mourners as evidence of their grief.

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Ancient Greek pictures of the famous Sphinx which devoured
those who could not answer its riddles.
Greek leg armor: an unusually well preserved specimen.
Athenian vases—red ﬁgures on a black background.

Greek funeral jar to which human bones have become attached
during cremation of the corpse.

Ancient small copy in marble of the gold and ivory statue of
Athena made by Phidias for- the Parthenon—the most
famous piece of sculpture of antiquity. Such copies are
rare. '

“Strigil” or body scraper used by ancient athletes.

Bronze implement which has baﬂied archaeologists. Perhaps
a spear thrower or boxing knuckle.

A Roman scale beam with a Cupid for a weight.
One of the largest of Greek wine cups.

A rare bit of Etruscan ingenuity—a stand with movable rings,
the whole made of pottery.

Bronze shoeing of woman’s wooden sandals—a lady’s hobnails
of 2500 years ago.

. Etruscan altar hearth, a cook stove made of pottery.
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Meat hooks for broiling, suggestive of instruments of torture.

The safety pin, one of the most ancient of modern necessaries,
invented over 2500 years ago.

A Roman camp cook’s outﬁt, buried with him after his death
from a spear thrust—note the hole in the breast plate.

ANCIENT PERUVIAX HALL: Room 14
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93. Beautifully carved shovels, used ceremonially by the priests.
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94. Period of early decadence, following the decline of the Tia-
huanaco style. Designs degenerate into rudimentary forms.

95. The great Renaissance of ancient Peru. Art designs become
marked by delicacy and ﬁneness.

96. From bird to geometric ﬁgure—a study in the evolution ‘of
designs.

97. Art forms of the latest Peruvian nation, “The Romans of
South America”—the Incas of Cuzco, overthrown by
Pizarro in 1532 A.D.

98. Evidences of the earliest known civilization in Peru: rudely
incised pottery, probably over 3000 years old.

99. Ear studs as big as a watch, worn in the stretched ear lobe.
100. Whistling jar. An ingenious mechanical contrivance.
101. Wooden grave images—gods, spirits, or the deceased?

102. A mummy ’s arm—still showing the tattoo that once adorned
the wearer.

103. Mummy taken out of its pot but still swathed.
104. Mummy entirely unwrapped.

105. Wrapped mummy in its burial pot.

106. A round cofﬁn—immense burial pot of the Incas.

'107. Corn, beans, peanuts, and other familiar foods of to-day as
cultivated 2000 years ago.

108. “Idols,” with face painting resembling spectacles.

109. A late decadence of civilization, especially visible in the crude,
indecisive pottery wares of central Peru.

110. Remains of the potter’s art decorated in the massive style
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The great period of northern Peruvian art, characterized by
lively scenes in free-ﬂowing lines.

How the gods looked to the ancient Peruvians: a remarkable
series of pottery images. '

Fashions and occupations of centuries and thousands of years

ago illustrated by ﬁnely modelled jars.

Human-faced bells of copper, Worn as a cloak fringe by an
Indian nobleman long dead.

. Spondylus shells for ornament, imported into Peru from

Panama—an evidence of aboriginal long-distance trade.
Inca “Pan’s pipes,” like those of the Greeks.

Prehistoric woman’s work basket, giving a remarkable insight
into the domestic life of the times.

The Inca “razor,” a metal tweezer.

Kipus—an early attempt at writing by means of knotted
strings. '

One of the ﬁnest pieces of textile art in the world: cloth
woven with designs in the grotesquely majestic style of
Tiahuanaco.

Complete embroidered blanket shawl. Inca fashion.

Scales, still balancing. The only examples of this invention
in aboriginal North or South America.

PACIFIC ISLAND COLLECTION: ROOM 16

One-man canoe, uncapsizable on account of out-rigger.

Armor of cocoanut ﬁbre, invented as protection against deadly
shark-tooth armament.

. Shark-tooth spears and swords, one of the most ghastly types

of weapons ever devised.

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Admiralty Island spears, with razor-like points of volcanic
glass.

War clubs. from Fiji, a contribution to the galaxy of human
ﬁghting tools.

Wigs of human hair, bleached blond and worn by men on top
of their hats.

Ceremonial adzes from Mangaia, among the most elaborately
carved of all utensils: interesting as a study in the evolu-
tion of designs. ‘

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Intricately carved mask worn in the rituals of one of the

secret ‘ ‘ ghost ’ ’ societies.

SHELLMOUND COLLECTiox: UPPER LANDING

. What the shellmound women sewed clothing and worked

baskets with: bone awls.

. Pi es—the medicine—man’s badge.
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. Skulls, showing the fairly large brain case of the shellmound

race.

. How the inside of a shellmound looks—typical samples of

diﬁ'erent layers.

. Two shellmound burials from near San Francisco—the skeletons

in characteristic bent position.

SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN HALL: ROOM 17

New Mexican storage jar—an example of what can be done in
pottery making by the aborigines.

Kaehinas or images used in ceremonies. Hopi Indians.

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Cliﬁ-dweller child’s skull, artiﬁcially deformed in infancy.
Stone lasts for ﬁbre sandals. Cliff-dweller.

Wooden hoes, perhaps the ﬁrst agricultural implement invented.

Pottery made by coiling together long rolls of clay, a primitive
method antedating the potter ’3 wheel.

Rare examples of stone axes vvith original hafting.

CALIFORNIA INDIAN HALL: ROOM 18

Stirrers for cooking acorn mush with hot stones in baskets.
Note the burned ends.

Trunks for valuables. Dug out of logs; cylindrical for con-
veyance in round bottomed canoes; a unique type.

A sex difference in Indian table etiquette: men’s and women’s
spoons.

Purses for shell money. Carved with stone tools from solid
elk born.

13 by 10-inch door of “sweat-house.” It was thought irre-
ligious to use a larger exit.

The ﬁre drill: two sticks that produce a spark.

Aboriginal “tooth-shell” money. Ten strings would buy a
wife or quiet a murder.

Rare native knives of ﬂint in the original hafting, still used
in 1902.

Stuffed deerskins, displayed in dances. Possession of a white
skin caused an Indian to be considered a Croesus.

California Indian woman’s full draws—apron and hip skirt.

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158. Dancing head-feathers from the California condor, sacred as
being the largest bird in the world.

159. Set of implements made by “Ishi” and his family, the last
survivors of the Yahi or Southern Yana tribe of Tehama
county.

160. Arrowpoints chipped by Ishi from obsidian and glass, with
tools and materials to illustrate the process.

161. Doorway of native house, cut in a slab of redwood, and ﬁtted
with sliding panel. _

162. Redwood canoe, hollowed out by means of ﬁre and polished
with stone tools.

163. One of the ﬁnest baskets ever made, 700 stitches to the square
inch.

164. Basket worked on a foundation of copper wire.
165. Porno bear~doctor’s medicine basket, a unique piece.
166. An aboriginal mint: Pomo outﬁt for making shell money.

167. Famous feathered baskets of the Porno Indians, a superb and
distinctive local product.

168. “Big head” outﬁt, worn by impersonators of spirits in re-
ligious dances. Sacramento Valley.

169. Storage basket for mesquite, a desert food.
170. Acorn storehouse, capacity 16 bushels. Sierra Nevada.
171. A perfect basket 10 feet in circumference.

172. Set of prehistoric baskets preserved in caves of Santa Barbara
county.

173. Tule raft, the primitive style of boat used by most California
tribes.

174. Large ﬁsh trap, scoop type, for muddy water.

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