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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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"n>;il Indian" costumes. Tlic actors lirinu walci- color paints to dccofatc their faces, and they play their parts witli haslit'iil earnestness. Soinctinics htth' figures of animals or miniature Mskiiuo \ ilhiu'es are modeled in composite clay, the scul;)tors first niakiny- a visit to the K>kimo Hall to examine the construc- tion of igloos. To some of the older children are handed lists of (Hiestions to whii'h answers nuist he deduced from ohservation of the Museum exhil its. It is lunv estimated that there ai-c hetween fom- and five thousand youthful \isitors in th<' ( hildren's Room durintj: the year. A small grou)) of children comes every Wednesday afternoon, with suliicient regularity to cnaltle us to carry on study ftu-ther than desultory (jucstions and answers. .Vmonf^ other activities we read Siris.s Finiiili/ HohuisDii last winter, and in\esti^ated every animal men- tioned in that remarkable hook. .V chance remark disclosed the fact that one of these children was "afraid" of spiders, so we set to work to learn all that we could about spiders and to transmute fear into interest. The same course was followed with regard to snakes, and the children handled <iarter snakes and other harmless sjjccies without dread. The ( hildreti's Room is now being fittefl out more in accordance with the original plans and is taking shajjc as a small museum where opportunity is gi\en for carrying on sonic a.cti\ity in addition to ob- ser\ation. J'crmanent exhibits of shells and minerals and one of won- derful fishes are disj)laycd there. Two cases contain a collection of dolls from all over the world, dolls that were made and ))laycd with by Ivskimo, Indian and Philippine chil- dren, and even some that ha\(' come to us from a distant past hidd<'n in the graves of ancient Peru. 2G1
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