THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBIT FOR THE OHIO
CENTENNIAL.
THE collection of Ohio prehistoric
relics, made at Phila-
delphia and at New Orleans, attracted
much attention, and
demonstrated the richness of Ohio
archaeological treasures.
By common consent Ohio was given the
first place among
the states in this class of exhibits.
And yet the collections
were far from satisfactory to
archaeological students, and to
those who made the collections and
superintended the exhib-
its. The small amount of money
appropriated to the exhibits,
and the brief time which could be given
to making the collec-
tions, made it necessary to depend upon
the generosity of
the owners of large collections, leaving
large parts of the
state unrepresented, and compelling the
management to put
on exhibition duplicates from the same
localities, and speci-
mens of which a definite history was
wanting, making them
of little value to the archaeologists.
The coming Ohio Centennial affords the
opportunity-one
which will probably not occur again-of
making a full and
complete exhibit of Ohio archaeology,
and the publication of
a report which will be a credit to the
State and the collectors
of its prehistoric remains. This can
only be accomplished
by the hearty co-operation of the owners
of all collections in
the State. They can, with but little
work for each, make
this part of the exhibition a grand
success, and secure for
each of them a report upon Ohio
archaeology, which could
not otherwise be made, and which will be
of inestimable
v lue to every collector and to every
student.
If the owners of all the collections in
the State, great and
small, will forward promptly to Mr. A.
A. Graham, of Colum-
bus, secretary of the Archaeological and
Historical Society, a
catalogue of their specimens of which
the history is known,
designating in what county found,
whether found on the sur-
face, in graves, in mounds or in rock
shelters; and will give
him a right, upon proper precaution for
their safe keeping, to
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