46 FIRST FLOOR 



The hall is loo feet square and can seat an audience of 1,500 

 people. It is provided with two screens, each 25 feet square, and 

 the illustrations for the lectures are projected by means of two 

 double electric stereopticons. 



Leaving Hall No. 108 at the south end we pass to the AVest 

 Corridor (No. 103). Here, extending upward through three 

 stories of the building, is a Haida totem -pole, 52 feet tall, from 

 Queen Charlotte Island. 



Continuing toward the west, North American Hall (Hall No. 

 102) is entered next. The collections in the south side of this 

 North ha^ll represent in sequence the cultures of the Indians 



American of the Plains, of the Eastern Woodlands and of part 

 ^^^" of the Southwest. The visitor is recommended to 



begin here in continuation of the studies which he has made in 

 the North Wing (No. 108). 



The collections from the Plains Indians have largely been 

 made from the point of view of illustrating their decorative art 

 The Plains ^^^ their ceremonials. The first case on the south side 

 Indians. (Case 17) contains material from the Blackfoot. This 

 is followed by collections from the Cheyenne (Case. 18), Arapaho 

 (Cases 18-21), Gros Ventre (Cases 21, 22), Sioux (Cases 23-26), 

 Shoshone (Cases 27-28), and Ute (Case 29), — all representatives 

 of the Plains culture. 



These tribes originally subsisted on the buffalo, and conse- 

 quently most of their utensils pertain to the preparation of skins 

 and to the manufacture of implements of bone (Case 19). The 

 present ceremonials of the Plains tribes are much modified by 

 the teachings of recent Indian prophets, which have taken the 

 form of the so-called "Ghost dance," the paraphernalia of which 

 are exhibited in Cases 19 and 20. Bags containing certain sacred 

 objects are much used. Such a sacred bag is in a case in the 

 center of the hall. Among many tribes there exist societies 

 grouped according to ages, which perform ceremonial dances, 

 each with separate paraphernalia ; the objects pertaining to four 

 such dances are shown in the wall-case, south side of hall. 



