Word: klamath
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University has received from Mr. Louis H. Farlow a large and comprehensive collection of household utensils, stone tools and dishes, fishing nets, games, weapons, and ceremonial objects, illustrating the art and customs of the Karok Indians of the Upper Klamath River in Northern California and of the Tolowa Indians of the same region. This is probably the most complete collection of old material in the country, comprising over 400 specimens...
...been collecting Indian trophies in the West, has lately presented to the Peabody Museum some valuable specimens, consisting for the most part of basket-ware obtained from the tribes in Alaska. British Columbia, and Southern California. The collection contains two specimen dancing skirts of an old tribe of Klamath Indians in Northwestern California. Both skirts are ornamented with black pinonnuts, and are woven with rawhide and grass. By far the most valuable of the specimens given by Mr. Farlow, is a very old Esquimo trinket-box about two feet long...