Excerpt from Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections
The present publication is called a handbook rather than a guide, as the continual increase, and consequent re-arrangement, of the collections renders allusion to particular cases impossible. The great amount and variety of the available information on the peoples of the whole uncivilized world, their beliefs, habits, and productions, have rendered concise treatment a necessity; but it is hoped that even this short abstract from an immense material will enable the visitor to grasp the scientific value of ethnographical oltjects, and to perceive their relation to the products of more advanced civilizations exhibited in other parts of the Museum. Many of the older specimens in the gallery have a connection with British enterprise and exploration which adds considerably to their interest: thus, the voyages of Cook, Vancouver, and others, including the explorers who took part iu the search for Franklin, are represented in the Museum; and the magnificent collection of the London Missionary Society, now shown in the Pacific Section, illustrates another phase of British enterprise among uncivilized peoples, in which we may take legitimate pride. India and its l)orderlands are represented only to a limited extent. The India Museum at South Kensington illustrates the industrial arts of Hindustan, leaving to the British Museum the ethnography of the primitive tribes. It has however, l)een difficult to avoid some overlapping of the two collections without causing gaps in both, and some confusion may exist in the public mind as to their respective functions.
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