ion there were but few individual exhibits, those being
principally in the section of history. Women have always been
the chief heralds of family and conservators of family records
and relics. The Daughters of the Revolution have stimulated
research, restoration, and preservation along historical lines.
For the first time in exposition management a department of
history had its own commissioner and that commissioner was a
woman. Miss Hayward justified this decidedly new step by her
services. I think I am right in asserting that she was the first
woman commissioner on the board of any international
exposition.[A] The section of history was part of the Department
of Anthropology.

[Footnote A: Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Daniel Manning were
appointed by President McKinley to serve as commissioners at the
Paris Exposition, 1900.]

New, too, was representation on the jury of anthropology of
workers in Indian affairs, as represented in the model Indian
school, containing, as it did, so large a proportion of women's
work in exhibits from different tribes and sections of the
country, and of the suggested work of the white woman teachers.
Of these latter was the juror, Miss Peters, of the domestic
science department. Advancement along these lines since the
Columbian Exposition is undoubted, except in the matter of such
Indian arts as basketry and rug making. If there be any reason
for the existence of a raffia basket in hideous aniline hues it
doth not yet appear. I think this 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, Ame