Article October 25, 1900 Issue

Indians will be a Feature

Boston Herald

The Pan-American Exposition would scarcely be worthy of its name did it neglect to illustrate so important a subject as the aboriginal inhabitants of the new world, their customs, institutions, and daily life. The great Exposition to be held at Buffalo next summer will, therefore, give especial attention to this subject and aim to present it on a more extensive, and popular scale than has ever been attempted before.

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 archæology, 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 archæology will be filled 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 contribute generously of their priceless treasures to make this exhibit the most complete ever collected for a similar purpose, and to the student, and, indeed, every thoughtful person, the remains of the aborigines here gathered will be full of interest and significance.

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