Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-10-27
INDIANS AT BUFFALO.
Interesting Feature Of Next
Years Pan-American Fair.
TYPES AND CUSTOMS TO BE SHOWN.

T1F6S AND tCSIUMS III kE SHUMN.
The AboriEine and His life 10 he
Illustrated as Never Has Deen At
tempted Before--A Large Indian
Village, IA six Nations Exhibit. and
Dances to BE shown.
The Pan-American exposition would
scarcely be worthy of its name did III
neglect to illustrate so important a sub
ject as the aboriginal inhabitants Of
the new world, their customs. institu-
tons and daily life. The great exposi-
ton TO be held mt Buffalo next summer
will therefore give especial attention TO
this subject and aim to present 1t on a
more extensive, scientific and popular
scale than has ever been attempted be-
fore.
Object lessons in the life. customs
and history of the aborigines of the
various portions Of the continent will
be given chiefly in four departments OF
the exposition, in the exhibits of the
building devoted to ethnology and
archaeology, in the Indian congress on
the Midway, in the six Nations village
and by means of the mounds intended
to reproduce some Of the best known
and most typical of the works of the
mound builders of North America
The building devoted to exhibits In
ethnology and archaeology will be filed
with relics of the occupancy by the red
men of the continent OF America. The
museums of the United States, Canada,
Mexico and South America will con-
tribute generously of their priceless
treasures to make this exhibit the most
complete ever collected for a similar
purpose and to the student and, in
deed. every thoughtful person the re-
mains of the aborigines here gathered
will be full of interest and significance.
In the ethnology building itself the
collections will be such as to attract
and instruct both the student of eth
nology and archaeology and the aver
age visitor who knows little of such
study. That is to say, they will be sci
entfic In character, but popular in their
manner of presentation. For instance,
there will be an art gallery in which
will be paintings representing with as
great degree as possible of historical
accuracy the life of the prehistoric
peoples of America and the scenes
which Columbus and his contemporaries
witnessed when they visited the shores
of North America and beheld in Cen
trail and South America the cities of
the Aztecs and ancient Peruvians. An
other feature of a popular character
will be the large model on the ground
floor portraying the historic Niagara
frontier and showing the sites of some
| 60 aboriginal villages. Real water will
flow through the Niagara river, and
the campfres viii be represented at
night by red incandescent lights. BY
graphophones and possibly the kineto-
scope vivid reproduction of many rites
and ceremonies Of Indians of the pres
ent day may be given. The collections
on the main floor will consist chiefly of
exhibits from large museums of the
United States and from those of Canada
and Latin American countries portray
ing the archaeology of the United
States including Alaska; of British
America, Mexico and Central America
and the South American countries
which are prolific in the relics of the
standardization of prehistoric times.
The cooperation has been secured of
such bodies as the Smithsonian institu-
ton, the American Museum Of Natural
History, the Peabody museum, the
University of Pennsylvania. the Uni
versity of Chicago and the Buffalo So
ciety of Natural Sciences. The minis
tiers of the various South American
countries are cooperating with the di-
rector general of the exposition and
the superintendent of ethnology, and 1t
IS now certain that a large amount of
valuable archaeological material win
thus be secured. Through the cooper
alton of the departments of agriculture
and horticulture exhibits will also be
made of the plants cultivated in both
North and South America before the
great discovery.
1t may surprise many readers to
learn that within 80 miles Of the
grounds of the Pan-American exposi-
ton in Buffalo the dances and other
pagan ceremonies of the Indians of the
Iroquois confederacy are practiced
much as they were when what is now
known as the Niagara frontier was, so