Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...collection has recently been presented to the Peabody Museum by the heirs of David Kimball. This collection, which for many years was on exhibition at the Boston Museum, consists of Indian relics and curios obtained by Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers about the year 1804. Chief among the curiosities are buffalo robes decorated according to the art of the times, ancient bows and arrows, musical instruments and some interesting examples of porcupine embroidery. The last named is especially valuable from a scientific point of view, as being one of the few relics of a sort of decoration which...