North America: Exhibition Guide

The exhibition guide on the hall “North America” is the second edition in the series “Halls of Kunstkamera”. The guide tells about the traditional culture of the peoples of North America in the first half of the 19th century. The exposition is based on the geographical principle (from the north to the south) and is dedicated to the traditional culture of the peoples of separate geographical and cultural regions: sea hunters and fishers of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic zones, forest hunters of the American North, fishers of the Northwest Coast, hunters of the Plains, gatherers and hunters of the Great Lakes, farmers of the East and the Southwest, gatherers and hunters of California. A separate chapter is dedicated to the history of the North American collections of the Museum.

	Introduction
	Preface
	Colonization of America
	Ancient Beringia Indigenous Population
	Discovery of Alaska Colonization
	Geographical and Cultural regions
	Sea hunters and fishers of the American Arctic and Subarctic
	The Greenland Eskimos
	Norton Bay Eskimos – the Unaligmiut
	“River” Eskimos
	Alutiiq – the PacificEskimos
	The Aleuts
	Forest hunters of the American North
	Northern Athabaskans
	Indians of the Northwest Coast
	The Tlingit
	Hunters of the Plains
	Dakota
	Collectors and hunters of the Great Lakes
	Algonquian People
	Farmers of the North American East
	The Iroquois People
	Farmers of the North American Southwest
	Pueblo People
	Gatherers and hunters of California
	The Pomo and Miwok people
	The history of the North American collections of the Museum
	Yu.F. Lisyansky
	V.M. Golovnin
	I.G. Voznesensky
	L.A. Zagoskin
	G. Chudnovsky
	The room of the peoples of America in five minutes