National Anthropological Archives

MS 1846 Miscellaneous photographs, sketches, facsimiles and tracings, assembled for comparison between Key Marco artifacts and others from widely separated localities

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS1846
Creators:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
124 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Nearly all unlabeled. With one highly miscellaneous lot is a 4 - page list of captions, but there is nothing to indicate the connection, if any, between the captions and the illustrations that are present.
Scope and Contents
Photographs: 7 - 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. showing shells, pottery, etc, unmounted. 30 - plates showing pottery designs, etc . unmounted av. 9 x 6 1/2 in. Not here in 1956. 1 Landscape showing designs on rock. Not here in 1956. 3 photographs of Indian men, (unmounted), 8 1/2 x 6 in. and 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (names not given) Not here in 1956. Photos in envelope marked "Bird Eye": 2 - showing Idol, 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. mounted. 3 - plates showing stone figures & miscellaneous designs. 1 - 8 x 10 in. showing figures. Photos in envelope marked "Club and Club Face": 1 - showing row of stone figures, 1 - showing shell figures (small); 1 of Indian figure with club 6 1/2 x 9 in.
Scope and Contents
2 - showing miscellaneous stone figures 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. Not here in 1956. In envelope marked "War Club and Shield": 4 - miscellaneous drawings and sketches. In envelope marked "Pecking Bird": 2 drawings showing designs, etc. In envelope marked "Club god": 1 - design showing shell gorget 1 - design showing figured copper plate Miscellaneous small sketches of shell mask, etc. 4 - figures showing clubs, etc. 1 - showing pottery.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 1846, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 1846


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Drawings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Key Marco (Florida) -- Florida -- Archeology Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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