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Native American Collections
The Mathers Museum collections from native North America consist of
approximately 8,000 objects. Most of the collections represent the early
to mid-20th century, although there are some older pieces. The single
largest collection was made at Point Barrow, Alaska in the 1930s,
documenting the lives of Inupiaq Eskimo groups. Another significant tribal
collection is the Ellison Collection of Pawnee Indian materials.
Other important collections document Florida Seminole groups, and several
of the Southwestern Pueblos and the Navajo. The Museum also holds over
8,000 photographs of American Indians from the Wanamaker Collection made between
1908-1923.
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