Expansive Native American exhibit opening in NYC

[October 22, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- A monumental new exhibition in New York City offers a hemispheric survey of Native American Indians, highlighting their complex and dynamic interconnected societies.

"Infinity of Nations" opens at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, on Saturday. It features 700 objects from South, Central and North America, from ancient to modern times.

The museum worked with 60 native historians and experts to interpret many of the objects, selected for their aesthetic, cultural and historic importance. They include ceremonial headdresses, a complete 1790s suit of clothing from an Upper Great Lakes tribe and an elaborately beaded garment made of caribou skin with a pouch to carry a newborn.

About 20 percent of the objects have never been exhibited before; 40 percent have not been on view in decades.

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Online:

http://www.nmai.si.edu/

[Associated Press; By ULA ILNYTZKY]

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