Early Native American Exhibit in new United States National Museum
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1911
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder: 6
Exhibit hall located in the new United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. There are exhibit cases lined up with life groups of Native Americans. In the foreground the case is labeled "California Province; Family Group of Hupa Indians." Portraits of Native Americans are hung on the wall behind the exhibit cases.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
There are several other photographs of this exhibit hall in this location. See Neg. # 30303 & 30304 for an earlier diorama without the legend of the same group before the Exhibits Modernization Program and Neg. # SIA2007-0071 or # 43595-D for a later diorama after the Exhibits Modernization Program.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder: 6
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1911
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22188 or NHB-22188
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print