The Origin of the Peabody Museum's Lewis and Clark Collection

Detail from a Painted Buffalo Robe

Detail from a Double-Fan Calumet Stem

Woman's Side Fold Dress

Root-Gathering Bag

Woman's Painted Side Fold Dress

Detail from a Calumet Stem

Pipe Bowl

Beaded Baby Carrier

Detail from a Bow Case and Quiver

Whaling Chief's Hat

Detail from an Otter Pouch

Castle McLaughlin is Associate Curator of Native American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

Hillel S. Burger is a professional photographer.

Read More by Hillel S. Burger:

• The Hall of the North American Indian: Change and Continuity
• Encounters with the Americas
• Makers and Markets: The Wright Collection of Twentieth-Century Native American Art
• A Noble Pursuit: The Duchess of Mecklenburg Collection from Iron Age Slovenia
• Masterpieces of the Peabody Muesum, Harvard University
• Painted by a Distant Hand: Mimbres Pottery of the American Southwest
• Feeding the Ancestors: Tlingit Carved Horn Spoons
• Artistry of the Everyday: Beauty and Craftsmanship in Berber Art