My Aboriginal American Collection

[QUOTE=HistoryGuy] Hey everyone! I thought I would share with you guys, whoever is interested, my Aboriginal American antiquity collection...










I use to archive at the Old Mission State Park in North Idaho. I cataloged both Native American and pioneer artifacts. It was neat to carefully touch and feel these artifacts with my little white gloves.

The Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, in Spokane, has one of or maybe the largest Native American collection in the USA.

Living Legacy: The American Indian Collection
July 19, 2008 – July 18, 2010
This exhibit displays all of the Manning American Indian Collection acquired in 1916, the founding collection of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. It explores the legacy of “Victorian” collecting and the period during which Native Americans saw their cultural objects institutionalized in glass cases.The exhibit also offers an alternative and culturally appropriate viewpoint that honors indigenous Plateau life-ways by contextualizing the Manning collection with objects drawn from the now vast and nationally important American Indian collection.


http://www.northwestmuseum.org/northwestmuseum/sub.aspx?id=2642

Originally posted by pinguin Hey, Moches didn't have cocaine. Cocaine was invented by European chemistries during the 19th century. Coca leaves aren't cocaine.

From what I read my Moche mortar and pestle was used to crush coca leaves and mix it with saliva to extract a natural anaesthetic (cocaine), also a natural drug for medicinal uses. The cocaine that you are talking about is the most purified extractions of cocaine from the leaf that scientists could extract. This more ancient way takes a little longer and is not as potent.

Edited by HistoryGuy - 28-Jul-2008 at 16:31

Very nice mortar and pestle. Speaking of points, do you have any Clovis culture reproductions?  I am thinking about buying one, but I want it to be accurate and not a fantasy creation. 

Edited by Cryptic - 29-Jul-2008 at 03:24

They look great. You may find this website interesting.  The focus is on Californian tribes.  

Edited by Cryptic - 07-Aug-2008 at 04:19