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Title: Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Pindar, George N Pearson, Mabel H Fischer, George Clyde, 1878-
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History New York Aquarium New York Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum
Publisher: (New York) Pub. for the American museum of natural history by C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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cos-tumes and medicine bags and the interesting bead decora-tions on the leggings and sandals are especially noteworthy. Displayed in the Assiniboine case are fine examples ofporcupine quill and beadwork. These Indians show a pref-erence in their decorative art for dark backgrounds; someshow blue or purple, and they have made frequent use ofthe square (box), cross and feather patterns. In moccasindecoration this tribe used practically every type of designfound in the northern plains. From the Dakota Indians are articles of dress decoratedwith porcupine quillwork, implements used in their dailylife and excellent examples of catlinite pipes of the bestknown types made by the Dakota; some of the specimenswere collected as early as 1840. The painted robe of buf-falo hide, bearing a design known as the Black War Bonnetpattern, is undoubtedly one of the finest robes in existence. Conspicuous in this collection are the costumes worn bythose who participated in the Ghost Dance, a religious 31
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ARAPAHO INDIAN DANCER DAKOTA INDIAN GIRL 32 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ceremony founded upon the belief in the coming of a Mes-siah, which resulted in the tragic death, on December 15,1890, of Sitting Bull, and which terminated with the mas-sacre of Wounded Knee on December 29 of the same year.These garments, bearing decorative symbolic designs, wereworn by all the participants in the Ghost Dance and werebelieved by them to be bullet proof. From the Crow Indians are the regalia worn by the mem-bers of secret organizations known as the Big Dog Society,Military Society and Tobacco Society, as well as specimensof their clothing and personal accessories handsomelydecorated with bead and quillwork. To those interested in studying the designs employed indecorating material of various kinds, an inspection shouldbe made of the specimens from the Sarsi Indians. Theirdesigns usually consist of a simple geometrical elementcombined in different colors to make the larger geometri-cal d

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