The American Museum Journal 



Volume XIII MARCH, 1913 Number 3 



CONTENTS 



Cover, An Apache Indian Girl 



Copyright photograph by Edward S. Curtis 



Frontispiece, "The Grand Canon," by Louis Akin 



Art in a Natural History Museum 99 



With special reference to mural decorations in the Indian halls 



The Indian — A Subject for Art E. W. Deming 103 



Illustrations from canvases by E. W. Deming and photographs by Edward S. 

 Curtis 



Louis Akin, American Artist Robert L. Warner 113 



Illustrations from canvases by Louis Akin 



The Artist's Southwest Howard McCormick 119 



With the Author's photographs of the snake dance and other ceremonies of the 

 Hopi Indians 



A Page of Museum History Clark Wissler 127 



A review of the American Museum's work on the Indians of the Southwest 

 during the past three years 



Shall Indian Lore be Saved? George Bird Grinnell 135 



A New Crested Dinosaur Barnum Brown 139 



Bird-Banding in America 145 



From a report before the Ornithologists' Union by Mr. Howard H. Cleaves 



Museum Notes 148 



Mart Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



Published monthly from October to May by the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Terms: one dollar per year, fifteen cents per copy. Entered as second-class matter January 

 12, 1907, at the Post-Office at Boston, Mass., Act of Congress, July 16, 1894. 



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