North America
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 554 objects from North America. These date from 1870 to 2005. This collection encompasses a range of items including costume, tools, ceramics, containers, furniture, body ornaments, masks, ritual apparatus, toys and games and hunting and fishing equipment. It also holds models, contemporary artwork, architectural elements, craft items, domestic tools, masks, textiles, watercraft and prehistoric stone tools. It is organized geographically according to broad cultural groups – Arctic/Subarctic, Pacific North West, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, South West and South East. Particularly strong areas include the Eastern Woodlands beadwork and the material from the Arctic and the Lakota of the Plains. Amongst the many rare costumes are a Woodlands Cree coat of buffalo hide decorated with painted designs and quillwork, a Inuvialuit costume of caribou hide with protective amulets, and a Lakota Sioux beaded waistcoat. The first acquisition to the Native North American collections as a whole, a pair of snowshoes from Canada donated by James McNair in 1870, reflects the strong connections that Scotland had with North America in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Eastern Woodlands of North America
North American Plains of North America