Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . Curious aboriginal emblems were those known as Totem Poles, erected by the Indians of BritishColumbia to commemorate heroic deeds in the lives of the braves. They are grotesquely carved andvary in height according to the rank of the deceased. The natives are said to value these ancestralrelics very highly. 4. The Penobscot Indians represented by four families made the Ethnographical ground north of Building their temporary home during the Exposition. Here in a thoroughly primi-tive style they whiled away the summer days an
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . Curious aboriginal emblems were those known as Totem Poles, erected by the Indians of BritishColumbia to commemorate heroic deeds in the lives of the braves. They are grotesquely carved andvary in height according to the rank of the deceased. The natives are said to value these ancestralrelics very highly. 4. The Penobscot Indians represented by four families made the Ethnographical ground north of Building their temporary home during the Exposition. Here in a thoroughly primi-tive style they whiled away the summer days and afforded a vast fund of entertainment and instructionto visitors who watched them at their domestic duties in their birch-bark wigwams or paddling their-canoes on the South Pond. ???
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