Native patterns

The Hood Museum boasts a new exhibit that reveals "the dual nature of traditional art," according to curatorial consultant Barbara Hail. The Rahr collection of Native American art and artifacts from the Plains and Northern Woodland areas consists of objects that serve "a combined need," says Hail, "one that is both material (utilitarian) and immaterial (spiritual) in a given society." The collection was given to Dartmouth by the father of Guido Rahr Jr. '51. "It is the most important addition to the ethnographic collections in many years," asserts curator Tamara Northern.