Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: March 28, "Recent Anthropological Investigations in the Southwest," by Professor Stewart Culin, of the Brooklyn Institute; April 12, "What Our Civilization Owes to the American Indian," by Professor A. F. Chamberlain of Clark University; April 22, "Recent Anthropological Investigations on the Northwest Coast of America," by Mr. H. I. Smith of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The lectures by Professor Culin and Mr. Smith will be illustrated by stereopticon views...
...collection of small ivory pieces representing certain phases of life among the Eskimos of Northern Labrador, has recently been purchased by the Peabody Museum. The collection was made by Dr. Grenfell, who has charge of the Deep Sea Mission along the coast of Alaska and who is greatly interested in the people of that region. The carvings are unusually good examples of the work done by the Eskimos, and form a variable addition to the collections of the Museum...
...troops on the Island and the skirmish which took place immediately afterwards. He then outlined the campaign that had been planned for the conquest of Puerto Rico and told of General Stone's march across the island. After narrating the progress of his own column from the coast village of Guanica, where the troops landed, to Utnado, Arecibo, and San Juan, the lecturer described his second visit to the Island, the journey from San Juan to Arecibo, Utnado and Ponce, and the return of San Juan by the military road...
...sailed from Boston on January 2, for Egypt, where he will remain until about March 1. He will go up the Nile to Khartoum, and perhaps, if the conditions are favorable, will take some caravan trip. He will then travel in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and the north coast of Africa, probably returning to America before Commencement. He is accompanied by Mrs. Shaler...
...baskets made by the Indians of California and Nevada early in the last century. Owing to the fact that the baskets now made are few in number and of poor quality, the old baskets are rare and costly. The other collection, comprising articles from the Indians of the Northwest Coast, and the Esquimaux of Alaska, includes the complete dress of a Wichita squaw, wooden dishes, models of sleds, household utensils, tools and bags...