Polynesian Culture Exhibit

ID: 27069 or NHB-27069

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: c. 1930s

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 17

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Summary

Diorama is of a Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • United States National Museum
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

See Neg. SIA2009-2193 (sepia) and Neg. SIA2009-1805 for a view of the exhibit hall with this exhibit case in the foreground in 1911.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 17

Contact information

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

Date

c. 1930s

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Artifacts
  • Costume
  • Clothing and dress
  • Exhibitions
  • Ethnology
  • Anthropology
  • Polynesians
  • Samoans
  • Ethnology--Polynesian
  • Dioramas
  • Samoa

Place

Samoa

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

27069 or NHB-27069

Physical description

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

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