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Description: | The American Indian culture is featured in the museum and the collection includes models of dwellings ranging from a bark-covered wigwam of the north-east woodlands to a mud-covered pueblo of the south-west. There is a variety of artefacts showing many facets of domestic and ceremonial life and the influence of the European's arrival, including costume, jewellery, implements and weapons.
Notable items include a wooden rattle, 19th century, Indians of the north-west; a silver and turquoise brooch, c.1950. Navajo Indians; a beaded gift basket, c.1890, Pomo Indians of northern California; a boy's beaded vest, late 19th century, Plains Indians; and a porcupine quill and birchbark box, 19th century, Indians of the north-west.
- | Subjects: | Ethnography | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Claverton Manor
Bath,
BA2 7BD | FAX: | 01225 480 726 | Telephone: | 01225 460 503 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:69 | Go to resource |
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