Prehistoric Hunters and Foragers, North American Archeology Exhibit, National Museum of Natural History

ID: MNH-1017 or MNH1017

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 on Prehistoric hunters and foragers is on display in the North American Archeology Exhibit, which opened in November 1962, in the National Museum of Natural History. The exhibit case contains objects from Signal Butte in western Nebraska by the Native Americans of the Western Plains, who were hunters and foragers and lived a nomadic life.

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

  • Signal Butte (Neb.)
  • Archaeology
  • Foragers
  • Hunting and gathering societies
  • Hall of North American Archeology (Exhibition)
  • Historians
  • Exhibitions
  • Western Plains
  • Indians of North America
  • Nebraska
  • Hunters

Place

Nebraska

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Exhibit

ID Number

MNH-1017 or MNH1017

Physical description

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

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