Word: zapotecan
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...whole less rich than the British Museum or the Berlin Ethnographic Museum, this outgrowth of the French Ethnographical Institute is rich in Zapotecan sculpture, Ooxocan ware and feather-mosaics from Mexico, particularly rejoices in several treasures: 1) the tallest (55-foot) British Columbian totem pole in captivity; 2) the world's finest bison-hide North American Indian paintings; 3) a fine, puma-headed statue from Bolivia, recently rescued from the Government Geology Laboratory, where it had reposed for 80 years as an interesting "sample of stone (undetermined...
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