Anthropology Exhibit, Natural History Museum

Summary

A group of Navaho Indians are depicted as silversmiths demonstrating their craft as part of the Anthropology Exhibit in the United States National Museum's Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History.

Subject

• United States National Museum
• 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. # SIA2007-0073 and 43354 for a later exhibit of the Navaho.
• This attached image was scanned from the original black and white negative located, 8 w x 10 h, in Accession 11-009.

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

• Silversmiths
• Clothing and dress
• Exhibit cases
• Anthropology
• Ethnology
• Anthropolgy
• Museums
• Mannequins (figures)
• Artifacts
• Historians
• Costume
• Exhibitions
• Ethnological museums and collections
• Museum mannequins
• Indians of North America
• Navaho Indians
• Dioramas
• Anthropological museums and collections

Place

• United States
• North America

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Exhibit

ID Number

30685-A or MNH-30685A

Physical description

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

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