Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Date:
1923
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and collections of materials obtained beyond our immediate borders, work at home was not neglected; indeed, so extensively were collections being gathered in the United States that the Museum was twice com- pelled to move from limited temporary quarters. Mr Harrington had long been a student of the ethnology and archeology of the Indians of the United States, and had sojourned among many tribes and in many localities in behalf of the Museum, com- mencing in 1908. ‘The results of his field trips have been most prolific, and through them the Museum’s collections have been enriched in a manner that seemed impossi- ble at the time the work was commenced. Especially noteworthy among the objects thus procured are a large number of sacred bundles, or packs, from numerous tribes, formerly used in connection with scalping,
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