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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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I'ortioii ol ti-anspari'ticy in Al'rican Hall. Tlie shaved head and ahimdant neck and ear orna- mciits arc typical of Kast Africa row of cases and the windows is to !)<■ dedi- cated to East Africa. Mere, as tliroii^liout the perimeter of the ('on^'o area, spears, shields, battle axes and other specimens are <j,rouj)ed on pillai's or fastened in frames al)()\"e the cased material from the same territory. .\ ratherno\'el device was hit upon to illus- trate ))hases of natixc life such as can scarcely e\er he represented adecjuatclx hy actual specimens. Thus, the pastoral life of the Masai is not clearly shown hy an exhi- liition of milk jufis, and the crossing of a river on a nati\'e bridge cannot be very vi\idly jjresented to a xisitor by a cased section of the bridge. Similarly, the necessarily piece- meal installation of garments and objects of personal adormnent from some district hardly ))ermits the construction of a ))icture of the fully-dressed warrior. .Vccordiiigly, there was obtained a large series of staiidai'd ))h()to- graphs illustrating various asj)ects of African culture; from these, colored enlargements on glass were ))rej)are(l, and i)laced in the lower window frames as transparencies. These trans))arencies, which embrace in scope the • ■ntire African continent, supplementing the material on exhibition, an' likely to cou\'ey to the general public a clearer an<l more impressive pietin-e of aboriginal .\frican cul- ture than could otherwise be hoped for. So far as the exhibition of the material itself is concerned, especial care was taken to emphasize certain broad features which

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