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MS 1380 Drafts and notes for a manuscript on metal implements and ornaments of the American Indian, at and before contact

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS1380
Creators:
Reynolds, Henry L.
Dates:
Ca. 1891
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
333 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
The file includes the following parts: 1. Draft of an article on metal ornaments and implements, 129 pages, partly typed and partly handwritten; typed copy of same, 101 pages. 2. "Introduction and General Remarks," different from an identically named section in the above, 12 pages, handwritten. 3. Introductory statement dealing with the types and origins of copper specimens in the possession of the Indian at the time of contact with the white man. Draft of a section for inclusion in No. 1 above. 10 pages, partly typed and partly handwritten. 4. Citations from early historical sources mentioning the existence and role of copper among the Indians at the time of contact. 57 pages handwritten; typed copy of the same, 24 pages.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Referred to by Holmes (12th Annual Report Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1894, page xxviii), as a paper on "prehistoric metallic articles of the mound area." However, the manuscript has incomplete sections, marginal notes, etc. and was evidently not completed at the time of Reynoldsʹ death in 1891. It includes descriptions of only part of the artifacts; certain blank sections are marked, "Here introduce own specimens."

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Citation
Manuscript 1380, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 1380


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United States -- Archeology Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
American Indians -- metal -- ornaments -- Tools Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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