Founded in 1996, the museum exhibits tribal regalia and serves as a research center.
Parliament members took their oaths 10 at a time, some carrying shields and dressed in bright tribal regalia.
Top of the line fashion, connoting contemporary urban toniness, is juxtaposed with traditional American Indian tribal regalia, connoting a heritage of ritual.
It was customary at the time that Indian chiefs visiting Washington be photographed in full tribal regalia with their Indian Agent.
It is based on 19th-century prison photographs of Indians dressed in surplus flags in lieu of their confiscated tribal regalia.
They were the best, and all of them were dressed in tribal regalia, feathers and furs and monkey-skin capes, kilts of cow-tails.
Less conventionally felicitous are the life-size Sasquatch-like creatures: tall, furry and in full tribal regalia cleverly constructed from found textiles.
The Safari and Polo Club sometimes features a black doorman in full African tribal regalia, complete with a headress and a spear.
He said he had based the image on 19th-century prison photographs of Indians dressed in surplus flags in lieu of their confiscated tribal regalia.
All the Indian children had brought their tribal regalia for the parade.