1. Bodhisatva

“Stone sculpture of Bodhisatva, painted in blue and red, face, feet and hands being gilded. China. Wei. (A.D. 386-534). “

2. Iroquois Indian Mask [C-56]

“These sacred wooden masks were carved and worn by members of the False Face Society, the most illustrious of several Iroquois Indian secret societies that treated disease by spiritual means. The Iroquois Indians, who lived in the eastern woodlands, believed that illness was caused by evil spirits, which the False Faith Society drove out by means of special songs, dances, elaborate rituals, and charms. Found in Mary D. Sturgess Hall (5).”

3. Miniature Group of Menangkabau Village [A-76]

“Central Sumatra, Malay Archipelago. The Menangkabau are a Malayan tribe inhabiting the Padang Highlands of Sumatra. The painted background shows Mount Merapi with terraced rice fields. In the foreground a house is under construction, men being engaged in thatching the roof and putting up carved rice granaries. In the center a completed dwelling is shown. On the left side are elaborately carved rice granaries. A load of thatch has just been delivered for the new house. Found in Hall G.”

4. Original Deck of Playing Cards [F-610]

“A complete deck of oriental cards from which our common playing cards originated. They are made by hand of vegetable fiber combined with plaster and ornamented with various color lac from the lac tree of India.”

5. Powhatan Indians [A-36]

“The Indian at the left is prying up boulders, the one in the center is breaking the large masses as a first step in shaping, and the one on the right is shaping rude blades by flaking. These were carried from the quarry to be worked up into various implements.”

6. The Races of Mankind [M-12]

“Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall contains bronze and stone sculptures of representatives of living races of mankind modeled from life by Malvina Hoffman, sculptor. The hall is named for Chauncey Keep, a trustee of Field Museum, whose bequest originated the fund that made possible the creation of the sculptures. Found in Chauncey Keep Memorial Hall.”

7. Restoration of a Neanderthal Family [C-40]

“Bones of Neanderthal-type people have been found in Europe and western Asia. These cave-dwellers, who lived about 75,000 years ago, were short and heavy and had brains as large as ours. From group by Frederick Blaschke Stone Age of the Old World and found in Hall C.”

8. Standards of Weight and Measure [F-607]

“Originally all weights and measures depended upon seeds. This card is one of a series illustrating, by the seeds themselves, the origin of different weights.”