Calumets.
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Drawing of carved pipe from beyond Rocky Mountains
Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9099
Scope and content
Pencil drawing of an elaborate carved pipe. The pipe has Indians on it and could be carved in the shape of a boat. Provenance is on the back of the drawing. It states that the pipe the drawing is based on was found in British Columbia.
Dates:
1857.
Joseph Jones collection of papers relating to Indians of Tennessee
Collection
Identifier: 9152
Abstract
Collection focus is mainly on the Indians of Tennessee and Jones' work Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee or Antiquities in Tennessee. Covers Indian burial practices, archaeological digs, items found, and other information about Indian antiquities. Includes Mounted pages from Jones' book on notebook sheets with handwritten notes, probably a proof. A handwritten manuscript for the book, bound in a notebook with the hand written title "Explorations of the antiquities of...
Dates:
1846 - 1889; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1868
Notes, correspondence and drawings on the Indian mounds of the Ohio Valley
Collection — Huntington box 17
Identifier: 9088
Scope and content
Notes written and collected by Marshall Howard Saville on the Mound builders of the Ohio Valley, including the Turner group of earthworks in Hamilton County, the Little Miami Valley sites, and the Moundon Bowman Farm site near South Milford, Clearmont County. Correspondence from individuals associated with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard University, including Alice E. Putnam and Charles P. Bowditch, with notes of Frederic Ward Putnam. Auction brochure titled...
Dates:
1915-1935.