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 Native North Americans
The Hall of Native North Americans presents material from some of the over 500 Indigenous groups in North America. Most of the objects on view were created in the late 19th century. Displays exploring select peoples from the Great Lakes, the Prairies, the Plains, and the Southwest regions include a wide range of traditional clothing, ceramics, basketry, textiles, weaponry, beadwork, and children's toys.
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The Great Lakes
The Great Lakes displays focus on artifacts from the Sauk (Sac), Fox (Mesquackie), Potawatomi, Chippewa (Ojibwe), and Ho-Chunk Nations, whose traditional lands bordered the Chicago area in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario. Their craft techniques are visible in such gorgeous objects as intricately beaded garters and moccasins, sophisticated fishing implements, and elegant household tools.
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 The Prairies
Beautifully carved buffalo horn spoons and cups, painted leather parfleche storage bags, and long slender tobacco pipes provide a glimpse into the lives of the people of the Prairies in the late 19th century. Lands in western Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and parts of the Dakotas formed the traditional home to such featured tribal groups as the Pawnee, Dakota, Mandan, Wichita, and Osage.
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The Plains
A mounted American bison sounds the keynote for the exhibits on peoples from the Plains, whose survival at the turn of the century depended largely on the buffalo herds they hunted throughout the territory of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. View exquisitely detailed beadwork on vests, moccasins, and wristlets, and magnificently painted buffalo hide robes from the Sioux (Lakota/Dakota/Nakota), Blackfoot, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Arapaho, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Crow.
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The Southwest
In the late 19th century, the Puebloan cultures of the southwest spanned present-day New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. Silver and turquoise Navajo (Diné) jewelry, colorful blankets and weavings, Hopi kachina figurines, and pottery ranging from beautiful polished black ware to fantastic animal effigy jars paint a picture of the lives of these desert-farming peoples at that time.
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