Word: farlow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...BOTANICAL CLUB. "The Bicentenary Linnean Celebration in Sweden." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor Farlow. Nash Lecture Room, Botanical Museum...
...Museum has also received as the gift of Mr. L. H. Farlow an excellent collection of 12 rare Chilchotin baskets from an Athabascan tribe in British Columbia...
...Lewis H. Farlow has continued to present the Museum with valuable specimens illustrative of the life and customs of the North American Indians. Dr. L. C. Jones '87 has secured for the Museum a large number of objects from the Pacific islands and from different parts of North and South America. Among other gifts, a collection of reproductions of mural paintings and frescos in Yucatan, and an old manuscript volume in the Pocom language of Guatemala have been received...
...Peabody Museum has received a very extensive collection from L. H. Farlow. This collection contains various specimens of the work of the American Indians, including bows, arrows, baskets, and an old drum, which was recovered from a lake in California. A very rare and singular coat of armor, such as was used by the primitive Hupa Indians, and beautiful head bands of red feathers are worthy of note. Dr. H. Rice '98 has presented various ornaments and weapons collected from the Zaporo Indians of Peru. Dr. J. C. Jones has donated a collection of New Guinea weapons and implements from...
...Farlow, recently presented to the Peabody Museum a complete outfit of a Pomo Indian medicine man, which he obtained in California. It is about 120 years old, and contains about 75 articles, principally roots, herbs, dried snakes and lizards, implements for producing noise, pipes, knives, feathers, and stones...