Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: To the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1903 04
These exhibits were supplemented by a series of designs and objects selected by Dr Franz Boas to illustrate the varied symbolism associated with a given motive or design by different tribes and peoples.
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