The Old Copper Indians, Archeology Exhibit, National Museum of Natural History

ID: MNH-1007 or MNH1007

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1962

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 9

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Summary

An exhibit case contains weapons and tools the Indians of the Great Lakes region fashioned from copper mined from the Lake Superior basin. The exhibit is on display in the National Museum of Natural History's North American Archeology Exhibit which opened in November 1962.

Subject

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 9

Contact information

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

Date

1962

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Mining
  • Archaeology
  • Weapons
  • Hall of North American Archeology (Exhibition)
  • Historians
  • Tools
  • Arms
  • Exhibitions
  • Indians of North America
  • Copper

Place

  • Superior, Lake
  • Great Lakes

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-1007 or MNH1007

Physical description

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

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