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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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waii, Marquesas, Cook, Gilbert, Savage, Marshall, Caro-line and Tonga Islands, including wooden images, tapacloth, weapons, musical instruments, garments, ornamentsof dress and models of canoes. Especially interesting inthe northeast corner of the hall are the suits of armor andthe unique series of weapons from the Gilbert Islanders.The armor is woven of cocoanut fiber and the weapons areset with sharks teeth. The old mariners chart, composedof straight and curved sticks to denote the course of thewaves while small pebbles represent the atolls, securedfrom the Marshall Islanders by the late Robert Louis Ste-venson, will also repay attention. In the southeastern section of the hall are fine examplesof tapa cloth, canoe models, household utensils, garments,kava bowls, necklaces and weapons from Samoa and Fiji.Among the most valuable specimens is the model of a bureor temple, while the cannibal forks and flesh racks are prob-ably the rarest and most exceptional in museum collections. 122
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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY In the front of the Tower Room stands a life-size cast ofa Maori warrior, posed in an attitude of defiance, on thelargest block of jade in any museum in the world. Withinthe Tower are specimens of Maori carvings, clothing andtools, together with a remarkable collection of the tattooedheads of ancient Maoris. The heads are thirty-five in num-ber and 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 nativ

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