ANTHROPOLOGY 



Ethnology 



Researches among the Indian tribes of North America were begun North 

 in 1899 under the North American Research Fund which was estab- Am erican 



Indian 



lished through the liberality of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Mr. C. P. Hunt- Research 

 ington, and Mr. Henry Villard. Later the funds for continuing this ^ und J 



° ' J & Expedition, 



work were provided by Mr. Archer M. Huntington, Mrs. Arabella 1899-1906. 

 Huntington, and Mr. Morris K. Jesup. Special attention was given 

 to the ancient customs which were rapidly disappearing. The decora- 

 tive art was also carefully studied by all the collectors, and the Museum 

 now possesses an unrivaled collection illustrating primitive art. Col- 

 lections were obtained from the Eskimo of Baffin Bay and Hudson 

 Bay, and the following tribes in western United States, Canada, and 

 British Columbia; the Sioux, Sauk, Fox, Comanche, Ute, Blackfoot, 

 Nez Perce, Sarcee, Kootenai, Gros Ventres, Assiniboine, Maidu, Arap- 

 aho, Pitt River, Shasta, Yurok, Crow, Alsea, Shoshone, Ojibwa, and 

 Iroquois. 



Another important investigation — the study of the Shoshone 

 and Algonkin tribes — was carried on jointly for the Museum and 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, by Mr. H. St. Clair and Dr. Wm. 

 Jones. The ethnological work was done for the Museum, while the 

 linguistic researches, largely based on records of tribal traditions, 

 were made for the Bureau of Ethnology. 



The collections from the Plains Indians have been made largely i ndians of 

 from the point of view of illustrating their decorative art and cere- the Plains - 

 monials. The tribes included in the Plains culture are the Blackfoot, 

 Cheyenne, Arapaho, Gros Ventres, Sioux, and Shoshone. The ex- 

 hibition series from the Arapaho is especially complete and contains 

 among other things life-sized models of the Arapaho dressed in the 

 regalia used in certain dances. Of special interest in the Blackfoot col- 

 lection is the Medicine Man's tepee, which was obtained by Dr. Clark 

 Wissler in 1904. 



The culture of the Indians of California is shown particularly by . .. , 



1 j j Indians of 



their baskets, of which the Museum has gathered a very extensive California. 



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