LABORATORY WORK.

A. Physical Laboratory.

Comparing and identifying bones. Measuring skulls. Dissections of

anthropoids and human subjects. Examination of brains. Study of

embryology and teratology. Practical study of the hair, skin,

nails, etc., of different races. Use of color scales, etc.

Practice in anthropomometry, with the necessary instruments.

Testing for sense perceptions.

B. Technological Laboratory.

Study of stone implements; simple and compound; rough and polished;

primary and secondary chipping; cleavage; firing; bulb of

percussion; mineralogy of implements; patine, etc. Bone

implements.

Study of metal implements. Hammering, smelting, casting. Results of

exposure. Analysis of alloys. Coins, etc. Study of pottery.

Pastes; burning; glazing; forms; decorative designs; painting

and coloring.

Textile materials; ancient cloth and basket work; feather work.

Methods of making casts and models; taking squeezes, rubbings,

copies, and photographs. Drawing, shading, and coloring

ethnographic charts.

Practice in preserving, mounting, arranging, and classifying

specimens. Tests for the detection of frauds. Incrustations,

dendrites, etc. Practice in reducing unknown tongues to writing,

by the ear. Practice in the repetition of unfamiliar phonetic

elements. Study of the actions of the lingual muscles in the

production of sounds.

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