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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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m WAN MU, THE CHINESE QUEEN OF THEFAIRIES. This is a carved ivory figure from theDrummond Collection. Though produced by aJapanese artist, it is founded upon a Chinesemyth. It is said that the palace of Wang Mnis in the Juen-lun Mountains, where she guardsthe Tree of Immortal Peaches that grows be-side the Lake of Gems, whose fruit ripens uponher birthday, every 3000 years. Here gather tothe Feast of Peaches all the immortals to renewtheir immortality bv eatinsr the celestial Fruit
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CHINESE BRONZES. A set of three bronze ornaments inlaid with silver from the Sung Dynasty,960-1279 A. I). To the right is a bronze libation cup, probably used in religious ceremonies, from the Shang Dynasty, 1766-1123 B. C. northern Asia. Specimens illustrating theculture, industries, religion and manufac-ture of China are on the left. Others,showing the mode of living, the costumes,and the war implements of Siberia, areon the right. The fur-work, costumes, and rugs ithe people of eastern Siberia reveal re-markable skill in workmanship. Twomodels show respectively summer andwinter scenes in Siberia. In the rear arccollections from Japan, the Ainu and theAmur River tribes noted for decoratedfabrics and picturesque costumes. The collections on the left side of thehall deal mainly with the everyday life ofthe modern Chinese and have a specialvalue, as they were made just before thesweeping changes of the last few yearstook place. These abolished many of thecustoms in which these

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