Polynesian Culture Exhibit
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- United States National Museum
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See Neg. SIA2009-2193 (sepia) and Neg. SIA2009-1805 for a view of the exhibit hall with this exhibit case in the foreground in 1911.
- Summary
- Diorama is of a Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder: 17
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1930s
- Standard number
- 27069 or NHB-27069
- 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
- Exhibitions
- Polynesians
- Samoans
- Ethnology--Polynesian
- Dioramas
- Anthropology
- Samoa
- Clothing and dress
- Costume
- Artifacts
- Record ID
- siris_sic_10560
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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