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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indian Trophies at Peabody Museum | 4/29/1904 | See Source »

...Senior Class seems to me timely and perhaps necessary. The principal objection to wearing them is that they are said to be uncomfortably warm. This objection would not hold if we wore them without coats or vests beneath them. The material of which the gowns are made is loosely woven and thin, so that the gentle spring breezes can blow through it with a good deal less effort than an ordinary coat requires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Favor of Caps and Gowns. | 12/18/1900 | See Source »

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