Image from page 124 of "General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History" (1911)
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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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*$«& (Above) BLACKFOOT SQJJAW AND CHILD TRAVELING WITH TRAYOIS. which are attached to the horse and dog and are dragged behind them. A primitive method of transportation. From a miniature group in the Plains Indian Hall (Below) A BULL ROM OR CORACLE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA PLAINS INDIANS wasmade l>\ stretching skins over a basin-shaped wooden frame. It was used for fording streams
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The Plains Indians are noted for theirpicture-writing on skins and for theirquillwork, which has now been super-seded by beadwork. They have a highlydeveloped decorative art in which simplegeometric designs are the elements ofcomposition, this being one of the mostinteresting features of their art. (See Da-kota case and Guide Leaflet No. 50, alsoHandbook No. 1. North American In-dians of the Plains.) The Indians of the Southwest(Index Plan. p. iG. Floor I, Hall 8) This region is famous for two reasons:the picturesque living Indian tribes, andthe large number of ruins built by pre-historic Indians. Since many of the latterare placed upon high rocks or in the wallsof canvons they are spoken of as dillDwellers. The front of the Hall is devoted to theliving Indian tribes, the rear to the pre-historic. Finally, in the far end of the Hall is asmall collection of the objects from theIndians of California. A conspicuous feature in this Hall isthe series of three large habitat groups:the Hopi,
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Image from page 124 of "General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History" (1911)
Identifier: generalguide39amer
Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO
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*$«& (Above) BLACKFOOT SQJJAW AND CHILD TRAVELING WITH TRAYOIS. which are attached to the horse and dog and are dragged behind them. A primitive method of transportation. From a miniature group in the Plains Indian Hall (Below) A BULL ROM OR CORACLE OF THE NORTH DAKOTA PLAINS INDIANS wasmade l>\ stretching skins over a basin-shaped wooden frame. It was used for fording streams
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The Plains Indians are noted for theirpicture-writing on skins and for theirquillwork, which has now been super-seded by beadwork. They have a highlydeveloped decorative art in which simplegeometric designs are the elements ofcomposition, this being one of the mostinteresting features of their art. (See Da-kota case and Guide Leaflet No. 50, alsoHandbook No. 1. North American In-dians of the Plains.) The Indians of the Southwest(Index Plan. p. iG. Floor I, Hall 8) This region is famous for two reasons:the picturesque living Indian tribes, andthe large number of ruins built by pre-historic Indians. Since many of the latterare placed upon high rocks or in the wallsof canvons they are spoken of as dillDwellers. The front of the Hall is devoted to theliving Indian tribes, the rear to the pre-historic. Finally, in the far end of the Hall is asmall collection of the objects from theIndians of California. A conspicuous feature in this Hall isthe series of three large habitat groups:the Hopi,
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