Hupa Indians Anthropology Exhibit, U.S. National Museum

Summary

An exhibition diorama of the Hupa people of Northern California. This life group consists of five individuals participating in a variety of domestic tasks. The exhibit is part of the Anthropology Exhibit in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Native American Hall

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See Neg. # SIA2007-0071 or old Neg. # 43595-D for an earlier diorama without the legend of the same group before the Exhibits Modernization Program and Neg. # 22188 for the exhibit hall in 1911.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder: 1

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

pre 1957

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Women
• Baskets
• Clothing and dress
• Exhibit cases
• Anthropology
• Anthropolgy
• Museums
• Artifacts
• Mannequins (figures)
• Historians
• Costume
• Exhibitions
• Museum mannequins
• Indians of North America
• Hupa Indians
• Dioramas
• Anthropological museums and collections

Place

• United States
• California

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

30303 or mnh-30303 or 30304

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print

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