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Title: Guide to the nature treasures of New York city; American museum of natural history, New York aquarium, New York zoölogicl park and Botanical garden, Brooklyn museum, Botanic garden and Children’s museum
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Pindar, George N Pearson, Mabel H Fischer, George Clyde, 1878-
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History New York Aquarium New York Botanical Garden Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Children’s Museum
Publisher: [New York] Pub. for the American museum of natural history by C. Scribner’s sons
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council – METRO

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960-1278 a.d., is a flower vase of 100rings; only three of these bronze vases are in existence.From the Chou Dynasty, 1122-255 B.C., may be seen atemple bell inlaid with gold and silver, which when struckon the different knobs produces a different musical soundfor each, and an unusual type of vessel in one casting, andfrom the Shang Dynasty, 1766-1154 B.C., a libation cup foroffering wine to deceased ancestors. Other specimens, illustrating the religious and home life,including a large image representing the Buddhist God ofMercy, which has eleven heads and forty-two arms, masks,images, altar sets, cosmetics, clothing, and tobacco andopium pipes, are installed in the cases on the west side ofthe hall. From Siberia numerous specimens of clothing, weapons,household utensils,fishing and hunting implements, religiousobjects, carvings, musical instruments and toys illustratethe home and social life of the Chukchee, Koryak, Lamoot,Yukaghir, Yakut and Russianized natives. Among the speci- 93

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94 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY mens obtained from these remarkable peoples, the visitorshould examine the fishskin garments from the tribes of theAmoor River, decorated with elaborate conventionalizeddesigns and geometric patterns, the beautiful bead and em-broidered work, armor worn in warfare by the Koryak,utensils used in manufacturing kumyss by the Yakuts andthe many remarkable pieces of inlaid fur work in the formof rugs and articles of dress. Metal work is also well illus-trated by elaborately engraved objects of beaten silver,consisting of girdles, neck pieces, bracelets, earrings andsilver-decorated saddles. From the ceiling is suspended a walrus-skin boat madeby the collectors of a Siberian expedition of this Museumand used by them for thirty-two days in traveling and trans-porting their material from Indian Point to Mariinsky Post,a distance of more than 1,200 miles. Enter the WEST WINGShells —a rose-lipped shell that murmuredof the eternal sea— Holland. Here

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