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Near life-size diorama of the Monpa people at the Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India The Exhibition Lab's mountain gorilla diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional model either full-sized or miniature. Sometimes it is enclosed in ...
This acclaimed diorama was named the Gilboa Fossil Forest after where it was located, as well as what Goldring used to piece together the layout of this diorama. In 1850 and 1920 in Gilboa, New York, petrified wood and fossilized rocks, respectively, were found [ 10 ] and in 1920, Goldring studied them and eventually identified them to be the ...
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, also called the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.
The Forest County Potawatomi Community (Potawatomi: Ksenyaniyek) [2] [3] is a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people with approximately 1,400 members as of 2010. [1] The community is based on the Forest County Potawatomi Indian Reservation , which consists of numerous non-contiguous plots of land in southern Forest County and northern ...
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Diorama of a Calusa chief at the Florida Museum of Natural History. The Calusa had a stratified society, consisting of "commoners" and "nobles" in Spanish terms. While no evidence shows that the Calusa had institutionalized slavery, studies show they used captives for work or even sacrifice. [6] A few leaders governed the tribe.
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In 1989, in recognition of the ethical and unequal power dimensions involved in the display, the South African Museum took the first steps to mediate the diorama. This came in the shape of an adjoining exhibition that investigated the rationale for the casting project and explored the backgrounds and identities of the people who had been cast. [12]