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Title: Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children's museum
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Pindar, George N Pearson, Mabel H Fischer, George Clyde, 1878-
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History New York Aquarium New York Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children's Museum
Publisher: (New York) Pub. for the American museum of natural history by C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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illustrate all the different styles of the art of tat-tooing as practised among these peoples prior to 1831, whenit was forbidden by the British Government. The remainder of the hall contains specimens from theMelanesians of New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Ire-land, New Britain, Admiralty, Solomon and New GuineaIslands. In these exhibits the sacred carvings and masksfrom New Ireland and the grotesque shields and ceremo-nials from New Guinea are especially noteworthy. Enterthe WEST WINGPhilippine Islands Through the center of this hall will be found, first themodel of an Igorot woman weaving on a native loom, nextthe model of a typical house of the better class, then a full-sized outrigger canoe, a water filter with jars and rack andlastly one of the tree-houses of the Lake Lanao Moros. The visitor should now examine the exhibits on the rightor east side of the hall. The Negrito collection is first. These pygmy peoples arebelieved to be descended from the first inhabitants of the 124
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1G0R0T HEAD-AXES, SHIELD AND BASKET IGOROT WEAVER BAGOBO BAG 125 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY islands. They are true savages, depending for food uponthe chase, neither living in villages nor building stablehuts, but roaming through the mountains in small groups ofa few families each. They are fleet of foot, and their usualweapons are a lance of bamboo, a palm wood bow and aquiver of poisoned arrows. They use as ornaments bamboocombs, feather headdresses, rings and bracelets of brass orcopper, and braided leg bands of hog bristles, which aresupposed to give them endurance and make them fleet offoot. They scarify the body, and such scars are their mosthighly valued adornment. For household utensils they haveonly a few cocoanut cups or sea shells, rude boxes, theprimitive fire-saw and a few crude musical instruments. Then follows a display of specimens from the Mangyan,Tinguiane, Manobo, Tirurays and Igorot tribes. Of thesethe collection from the Igorot is the largest and most

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