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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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256 TEE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL
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The idea for the upper design, made by Mr. Makoto Nishi- mura, was taken from the American Museum's collections of primitive American art. Mr. Nishimura was a prize winner in the recent design contest. Samples of silk bearing this design and the following were furni.shed by Belding Brothers The lower design shows a graceful motive suggested to the artist, Mr. Andrew Fleury, by the Museum's Amur River collec- tions. The design won third prize in the contest collections has been Mr. 0. G. Fisher, of Belding Brothers, and he has been very mnch influenced in his designing by the material he has seen here. The same may be said of Cheney Brothers, who are making use of ideas developed from this material. It would be tedi- ous to enumerate each person who has come to the American Museum and found it a great com- mercial asset—as well as a delightful recreation. John Wanamaker's store recently had a very inter- esting exhibit of "Mayan Fabrics," the motives for which were taken from tlic )\ruseuiH. These fab- rics were exhibited in sev- cial other cities, even as far west as Portland, Ore- gon. It would be impossible, witliiii reasonable space limits, to show a tithe of the designs which have been created from this in- spiration. Indeed, they ;i re coming out so fast that it is impossible even to keep trace of them. The designers, working under the guidance of the )\Iu- seuni, are spreading this art so rapidly among the industry that many peo- ple are buying designs and do not realize that the ideas have been suggested by )\Iuseum material. As before stated, representa- tives of the cotton and garment concerns also are beginning to visit the Mu- seum with serious inten- tions. Burton Bros. & Co., Wm. H. Brown Son & Co., Clarence Whitman & Co., Inc., Renfrew Mfg. Co., and Eddystone Mfg. Co., are among the cotton concerns that have come up to this date, and the firms of J. Eapoport & Co., A. Beller & Co., and E. J. Wile & Co., are among the costumers who have

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