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...before the white man came; 2) U. S. Indian culture has been blown this way & that by the encroachment of white civilization. Though U. S. Indians made pottery, peace pipes, masks, sculpture and baskets before Columbus' day, many of their most typical later arts were based on materials (beadwork, silver, etc.) introduced by white settlers...
...most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...
...25¢ admission, visitors saw a complete chronological history of the U. S., reproduced" with marble, paintings, trinkets, dresses, guns, Sheraton tables, Chippendale chairs, bedrooms (in Paul Revere's bedroom are two cradles. Married thrice, Rider Revere was the father of 16), chandeliers, Indian beadwork, violins, and a group of wax figurines, modeled and garbed to represent late ladies whose husbands had a hand in molding Chicago's history...