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The exhibition includes Pre-Columbian artifacts created for use in rituals, worship, and games, or to record history, using a wide range of media: pottery, textiles, silver, gold, shell, wood, and stone.<\/p>\n<p>Under European domination, indigenous peoples were subjected to profound changes in their lives and traditions. European diseases devastated their populations, and the conquering powers exploited native labor and expropriated land throughout the colonial period and Westward expansion in the United States. Christianization was often cruel and destructive. Their survival threatened, they began a process of adaptation that continues in our time, with art, history, memory, language, legends, and rituals continuing to link contemporary Native American communities to their ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>Among the stunning objects in the exhibition are exquisitely crafted gold, ceramic and feather artworks that give a revealing glimpse into the ancient spiritual traditions of the Maya, the Ta\u00edno, and other indigenous civilizations. Interactive displays let visitors explore Martin Waldseem\u00fcller\u2019s famous 1507 and 1516 maps of the world, groundbreaking cartographic masterpieces that were the first to show the Americas; and the 1635 <em>Historae Naturae<\/em>, the first encyclopedia of American plants and animals, in which fantastic creatures like a \u201cnameless animal with lethal breath\u201d and a \u201cbird of paradise\u201d in perpetual flight show the wonder and frequent misunderstanding with which the Old World saw the New.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare copy of Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas\u2019s 1552 tract <em>Entre Los Remedios<\/em>, the heroic priest denounced the Spanish cruelty inflicted on the indigenous Americans and pleaded with the Crown to protect and convert them to be good Christians. British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson\u2019s famous 1808 illustration shows the horrifying way enslaved people were packed on ships, a crucial image in the campaign that led to Britain abolishing slavery. 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