General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . AFRICAN TOM-TOM DRUMMER. Exhibited in the Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals. Sculptured bv Malvina Hoffman HALL OF AFRICANETHNOLOGY (Index Plan, p. 18, Third Floor, Hall 8) The order in this hall is roughly geographi-cal. Thus, as one proceeds through the hallhe meets the tribes that would be found inpassing from south to north in Africa, while the west coast is represented along the left-hand wall, the east coast along the right-handwall, the central Congo tribes at the far end. There are three aboriginal
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . AFRICAN TOM-TOM DRUMMER. Exhibited in the Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals. Sculptured bv Malvina Hoffman HALL OF AFRICANETHNOLOGY (Index Plan, p. 18, Third Floor, Hall 8) The order in this hall is roughly geographi-cal. Thus, as one proceeds through the hallhe meets the tribes that would be found inpassing from south to north in Africa, while the west coast is represented along the left-hand wall, the east coast along the right-handwall, the central Congo tribes at the far end. There are three aboriginal races in Africa:the Bushmen, the Hottentots, and the Ne-groes. In the north the Negroes have beengreatly influenced by Hamitic and Semiticimmigrants and have become mixed withthem. Nothing is more characteristic of theNegro culture, to which the rest of the hallis devoted, than the art of smelting iron andfashioning iron tools. The process used bythe African blacksmith is illustrated in agroup on the left, and the finished products,such as knives, axes and spears, are amplysho
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