General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History (1911) (14595150539)

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Title: General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History

Year: 1911 (1910s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 Miner, Roy Waldo, 1875-1955

Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history museums

Publisher: New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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Islands, the original inhabitants werephysically the most primitive of livingmen, related to the African Bushmen andthe extinct Tasmanians. The present pop-ulation is predominantly Malay in origin,members of the great Mongolian race.Their cultural arts include pottery, metalwork, and textiles. The metal work is es-pecially fine in the weapon-making ofJava and among the Mohammedan in-habitants of the Philippines. Among thetextiles are exhibited the batik work ofJava, the tie dyeing of the Bagobo in thePhilippines, and fine textiles of Luzon. They possess fowls and pigs, cultivaterice, and use the Carabao, or water buf-falo, as a domestic aid in agriculture andtransportation. They possess the out-rigger canoes generally in use throughoutthe Pacific. Their weapons are blow-guns,bows and arrows, spears, and knives. Theyare devoted to head-hunting, consideringit necessary for religious peace andsecurity. The original culture of the first blackrace has disappeared. That existent atpresent i

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