Object Details
- Author
- Unknown (Thomas W. Smillie?)
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- United States National Museum
- National Collections
- Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Incorrectly labeled 1903 on back of photo because photo was used in USNM Report 1903; Published in "The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building" by Cynthia R. Field, Richard E. Stamm, and Heather P. Ewing, p. 84.
- Summary
- Prehistoric Archaeology exhibit in Upper Main Hall (above Great Hall) of the Smithsonian Institution Building showing ethnological and archeological specimens, looking west c. 1879-1903. An immense painted Tsimshian housefront, acquired from the Northwest Coastal Indians for display at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876, is visible on the west wall at the back of the room. Numerous busts populate the tops of exhibit cases. Spears and bows and arrows from various tribes are decoratively grouped in patterns on the walls.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 41, Folder: 4
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1879
- Standard number
- 2962 or MNH-2962
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Anthropology
- Busts
- Ethnology
- Exhibitions
- Museum exhibits
- Indians of North America
- Northwest Coast Indians
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Tsimshian Housefront
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8263
