bastard has usurped the place of the Indians’ beautiful art of long descent, and it is distressing.  White teachers who presume to instruct the Indians in basket making, or who substitute hairpin lace and the like, have much to answer for.

I noted no particular advance in anthropology among women since the Columbian Exposition, when I served upon the same jury in the same distinguished company—­Mrs. Zelia Nuttall and Miss Alice Fletcher.  In other more tangible departments, so to speak, and at other expositions, I have noted a steady advance in woman’s work and in the spread of her domain.  The time has long past when it should be segregated, as kindergarten efforts are from regular school work.

I recall no anthropological exhibit by foreign women at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.  In fact, American women undoubtedly lead in such study, investigation, exploration, and publication.  In their own country the opportunity is great, especially in ethnology, because of the thousands of barbarous people among us and savages upon our borders.  Tribes still in the stone age are our actual contemporaries.  Women, quick to grasp, able to ingratiate themselves, are peculiarly fitted to gather the folklore of the Indians, their songs and myths and ceremonials—­weird, rich, beautiful as those of the ancient Greeks.  Miss Fletcher, who at St. Louis served upon the section of psychometry, has done much for both ethnology and the coming school of American music in rescuing and preserving the Indian songs.

What has been accomplished in archaeology by women was best exhibited in the attainments, translations, and publications of another member of the jury of anthropology, Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, as well known in Europe as in this country.  Woman’s acknowledged intuition, patience, and enthusiasm are factors of great value in the problem of reducing to one common denominator the life and works of bygone man from his archeological remains.

It seems to me of great importance to emphasize the work of women at such expositions.  What woman has done, woman can do, is an invaluable suggestion borne in upon many minds of latent possibilities which, developed, might greatly benefit humanity.  The most important exhibits at any great exposition are never seen, only felt.

Miss Cora Peters, Department of the Interior, United States Indian Service, Chilocco, Okla., as mentioned by Mrs. Henderson, also served in this Department, and briefly says: 

I have not been able to give very definite replies as I had so little time to investigate the work.  I served on the section of Indian education, and the work of the women was usually better than that of the men, and in every case they were more persistent in their efforts.  It seems to me that there are more opportunities open to women along educational lines, especially that of domestic economy.  The extent of women’s