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Excerpt from Indian Notes and Monographs: A Series of Publications Relating to the American Aborigines, Aims and Objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Gifts by Trustees. - Ih this brief summary only a few of the gifts made by trustees Of the Museum, important as they are, can be mentioned. As proof of the interest he has always manifested, Mr Hendricks has presented, besides those mentioned, vari ous large collections, including numerous polychrome vessels from the celebrated Casas Grandes of Chihuahua; two Penn wampum treaty belts, procured in London; a large number Of gold ornaments from Colombia; a collection of archeological ob jects from Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania; a collection of archeological and ethnological Specimens from the Cho koi tribe Of Panama, and of ethnologic artifacts from the Plains Indians, gathered at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, about 1850; and a collection of native woven blankets, belts, etc., from the Southwest and northern Mexico. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
