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HALL 18-AYER HALL. 
THE PRIMITIVE TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. 
The specimens exhibited in this Hall include mainly the 
collection of Mr. Ed. E. Ayer, which covers the whole continent of 
North America; the collection of Lieut. R. Peary, from North 
Greenland; Rev. Sheldon Jackson, Rev. E. Cherry, and Governor 
Swineford, from Alaska; Dr. Robert Bell, from Hudson Bay; Mr. 
Isaac Cowie, from Saskatchewan; Rev. E. F. Wilson, from Mani- 
toba; Mr. Henry Hales, from New Mexico; Dr. C.Lumholtz, from 
Northern Mexico. 
Case 1.— Weapons and implements of the Eskimo of North 
Greenland. Suits of clothing from North Greenland. 
Case 2. — Suits of clothing from North Greenland. 
Case 35. — Tools, implements, toys, bows and arrows, from 
North Greenland. 
Over Case 3. — Two canoes from North Greenland are 
suspended. 
Case 17.— Clothing of the Eskimo of the East Coast of 
Hudson Bay. Suit of clothing of a child from Greenland. 
Cases 3 and 4. — Clothing and weapons of Alaskan Eski- 
mos. 
Case 18.— Carved dishes and spoons from Alaska and 
Northern British Columbia. Wooden helmets and dancing hats 
and dish made of the vertebra of the whale from Alaska, baskets of 
the Indian Tribes of Alaska and British Columbia. 
Case 23. ^ Tools and implements of Alaskan Eskimo. 
Pictographs engraved on ivory. Dancing masks. Carved spoons 
made of the horns of mountain goat and of the big horn sheep, the 
handles being carved with representations of the crests of the 
owiiers. Daggers; painted bags for red paint; charms and rattles 
of the Medicine Man; gambling sticks; and rattles used in society 
dances. 
Case 24.— Carved spoons of horn of the Rocky mountain 
goat and big horn sheep. Carved dishes; models of boats; masks* 
halibut hooks. 
Case 34. — Basketry from the Northern Pacific Coast. 
Over Cases 12 to 16, 1 and 2. — A series of Alaskan 
kayaks and baidarkas are suspended. 
Case 5. — Clothing and bows and arrows, models of houses 
and canoes, baskets of the Athapascan tribes of Alaska. Suits of 
