Archaic Hunters & Gatherers of the Northeast, North American Archeology Exhibit, National Museum of Natural History

ID: MNH-1011 or MNH1011

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1962

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 10

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Summary

An exhibit case on Archaic Hunters and Gatherers of the Northeast displays tools and other materials left by small bands of seminomadic hunting, fishing and food-collecting peoples, who inhabited the northeastern United States for some 3000 years beginning about 3500 B.C. The exhibit is on display in the North American Archeology Exhibit, which opened in November 1962, in the National Museum of Natural History.

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: 10

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

  • Archaeology
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  • Hall of North American Archeology (Exhibition)
  • Northeastern United States
  • Historians
  • Tools
  • Archaic Hunters
  • Exhibitions
  • Indians of North America
  • Gatherers

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-1011 or MNH1011

Physical description

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

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