Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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84 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST There will also be on view a number of paintings by distinguished artists including some work by the late Louis Akin. This with photographs, sketches and maps will give one the feeling of the Southwest. One of the special ethnic groups is here shown in the illustrations. Supplementary to this is a full-sized hogan or Navajo house, shipped to the Museum from the Navajo reservation. This is one of the older types of ceremonial hogan, built upon a foundation of four forked logs, the arrange- ment of which suggests the tipi pole structure among the Crow and some other tribes of Northern Plains Indians. In the near future it is proposed that the interior of this hogan be fitted out with the furnishings of a Navajo home and life-sized figures of the occupants. A handbook on the Southwest has just been written by Dr. P. E. Goddard in which are discussed phases of Indian life peculiar to that part of our country. For a long time the Navajo and Pueblo Indians have excelled in decorated pottery and textiles. These arts are rather old because in many ancient ruins are fragments of very fine pottery. Also the early Spanish explorers found the people spinning and weaving cotton.
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Navajo man making turquoise beads (drilling a piece of turquoise matrix with a bow drill)

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