On   Sun, 1 Mar 1998  Felicia Pickering

> For anyone interested in this novel, today's New York Times Book
> Review has a detailed review of it.

Hi Felicia:
I especially liked the claim "Vidal gets away with a good deal of
stereotyping, since his Iroquois aren't 'real', but rather as the curators
of the 1930s conceived them."

We all know (1) There never was an Iroquois life group ("diorama") at SI;
and (2) all of the life groups which were up in the 1930s (and today) were
made by 1915 at the latest, most in the 1890s.

tkavanagh
curator of collections
mathers museum
indiana university