General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . • CEREMONIAL ORNAMENTS FROM MELANESIA numerous iron weapons — spears, battle-axes, and krises (daggers with serpentineblades) — are especially remarkable. On the left side of the hall will befound a number of synoptic exhibits ofnative krises, shields, fabrics, basketry andceramics. Pottery is not highly developedin this area, but the textile arts flourishto a remarkable degree. The industriallife of the Bagobo of Mindanao is par-ticularly well illustrated in the collections. Much more primitive in their culturet
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . • CEREMONIAL ORNAMENTS FROM MELANESIA numerous iron weapons — spears, battle-axes, and krises (daggers with serpentineblades) — are especially remarkable. On the left side of the hall will befound a number of synoptic exhibits ofnative krises, shields, fabrics, basketry andceramics. Pottery is not highly developedin this area, but the textile arts flourishto a remarkable degree. The industriallife of the Bagobo of Mindanao is par-ticularly well illustrated in the collections. Much more primitive in their culturethan the other Malaysians are the Negri- tos, a dark-skinned and frizzly-haired pyg-my stock forming with similar groups inother parts of the world a distinct divi-sion of the Negro race. They are every-where hunters, using the bow and arrow,and ignorant of agriculture. Their simpleimplements are shown in a table case inthe further section of the hall. The islands lying close to the coast ofAsia have been subjected to several mi-grations and to varying cultural
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