General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . ll. On the opposite, north side, are the Iroquois, whose league com-prised the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and laterthe Tuscarora. They dominated New York and much adjoining terri-tory. The exhibits represent particularly the agriculture of the East,which was carried on with rude tools by the women. In a case in the aisle are exhibited wampum belts which were highlyesteemed in this region. They served as credentials for messengersand as records of treaties and other important events. Later, wampumbe
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . ll. On the opposite, north side, are the Iroquois, whose league com-prised the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and laterthe Tuscarora. They dominated New York and much adjoining terri-tory. The exhibits represent particularly the agriculture of the East,which was carried on with rude tools by the women. In a case in the aisle are exhibited wampum belts which were highlyesteemed in this region. They served as credentials for messengersand as records of treaties and other important events. Later, wampumbeads came to have a definite value as currency, especially in tradebetween the white man and the Indians. In the farther end of the hall, on the left, are the collections fromthe Ojibway, Hiawathas people, who lived mainly north of the GreatLakes. They had but little agriculture, living chiefly by hunting andfishing. Beyond the Ojibway are the Cree, who lived still farther is to be seen the rabbitskin clothing of our childhood rhymes. f)<) INDIANS OF THE WOODLANDS. AN IROQUOIS WARRIORFrom the group in the Woodland Indian Hal Opposite the Ojibway arc the great Central Algonkin tribes, theMenomini and Sank and Fox, who lived south and west of the GrealLakes. They gathered wild rice and hunted and fished, also practisingsome agriculture. In one of the Menomini eases are some skin bagsbeautifully worked in porcupine quills. These bags were used in the INDIANS OF THE PLAINS 51 Midewin, the secret society of the shamans. Visitors interested in thedesigning art will find the cases of this hall full of bead, quill and textiledesigns of a high order. (See Guide Leaflets, Nos. 41, 50, 63, Indiansof Manhattan, Indian Bead Work and Indian Costumes.) The dwellings are of several forms, among which may be mentionedthe long rectangular houses of the Iroquois covered with oak bark; thedome-shaped huts of Long Island and vicinity which were covered withmats and bundles of grass, an
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