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

Date:
1923
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Credit: Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HEYE FOUNDATION HIS Museum occupies a unique position among institutions, in that its sole aim is to gather and to preserve for students every- thing useful in illustrating and elucidating the anthropology of the aborigines of the Western Hemisphere, and to disseminate by means of its publications the knowledge thereby gained. The Museum had its inception twenty] Inception years ago, when its present Director, pur- suing his interest in the material culture of the American Indians, commenced the sys- tematic accumulation of objects pertaining thereto. The first important collection was
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