New-York tribune., 1901-04-21
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
REPRESENTATIVES, OF MANY TRIBES
MAY BE SEEN AT BUFFALO,

The building devoted to exhibits in ethnology
and archaeology will be filled with relies of the
occupancy by the red men of the American Con-
tinent In article the subject of the
American Indian. Edward Hale Brush of the
Publicity Department. says:
There is 4 peculiar fascination in the study of
q race whose history and institutions are in
vClved in more less mystery. and whose re
mains take back into prehistoric times. A
lclic which to the unobscrvant and uninstruct-
ed eye is q shapelesS and worthless object be-
comes alive with interest and significance when
it is known to tell n story of a far distant past
and reveal the customs and ideas of people
long since periShed from the face of the earth
In the Ethnology Building itself the coec-
tions will be such as TO attract and instruct
both the student of ethnology and archaeology
and the average visitor who knows little of such
study. That is to say, they will be scientific in
character but popular in their manner of pres
cntation. For instance. there will be art
gallery in which Will he paintings representing
with great degree 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 bCheld in Central
and South America the cities of the AZtecs and
ancient Peruvians Another feature of popu-
lar character will be the large model on the
ground floor portraying the historic Niagara
frontier and showing the sites of some sixty
aboriginal villages. Real water will flow through
the Niagara River. and the camp fires will be
represented at night 10y red incandescent lights.
BY graphophones, and possibly the kinetoscope,
monies of Indians of the present day may be
given. The collections the main floor will
consist chiefly Of exhibits from large museums
of the United states aud from those of Canada
and Latin American countries portraying 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 sem-cvi-
iZation of prehistoric times.
In order to make the exhibit as large and as
interesting as possible, the cooperation of many
well known Institutions was secured Among
these the Smithsonian institution the
American Museum of Natural History the Pea
body Museum, the University of Pennsylvania
:he University OF Chicago and the Buffalo So
riety Of Natural Sciences
Equal to the exhibits at the Ethnology Build
Ing in interest to the visitor will be the Six Ma
tions Village. On the grounds which have been
arranged for this instructive exhibition, the Ind
ians will live just as their ancestors did before
white men came to Western New York The
dances and other ceremonies will he produced.
The traditions handed down by the forefathers
of the Six Nations Indians of the present day
and the descriptions given by travellers of carly
times will be followed in reproducing these cere-
monies
There are many interesting types of the Iro-
quois Indians among those living on reserva-
tions. some Of whom will be seen in the Six
Nations Village. Among these will be a squaw
who is more than hundred years old. Her
cabin has been removed from the reservation to
the Pan-American grounds. Another typical
Seneca Indian has applied for the position of
bandmaster. lie IS Moses Shongo, grandson
of the famous Captain Shongo, who of
the allies of the United States during the Revo-
luton and chief of the last Seneca Indian village
on the Genesee River. He has the tomahawk
of Captain Shongo, and it is through the family
TO which he belongs that the Indian knowledge
of medicine has been handed down. He is at