THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



primitive skin shoe. All varieties of pattern and decoration 

 are represented. 



The case of food plants contains samples and lists of the 

 chief cultivated plants in the New World before 1492, most 

 of which have since become world staples. This is the one 

 great contribution of aboriginal New World culture. Ad- 

 joining is the 



SOUTHWEST PAVILION 



Indians of the Plains 



"Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind 

 Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind." 



Pope. 



These collections have been secured from among those 

 tribes of Indians living on the Plains and Prairies west of 

 the Mississippi, 1 " where formerly ranged the vast herds of 

 buffalo. The flesh of these animals formerly comprised the 

 main article of food of these Indians; the tipi was their 

 home, and the horse with the travois — an A-shaped drag 

 frame of poles— their means of transportation. 



The cases are so arranged as to separate those tribes 

 designated as Village Indians from the Nomadic Indians, 

 the latter constituting the majority of the Plains Indians. 



In the quadrangle between the entrance from the Wood- 

 lands Hall and the exit leading to the Southwest Hall, will 

 be found the specimens obtained from the Village Indians, 



8 North American Indians of the Plains— .25 and .50. 



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