National Anthropological Archives

MS 2619-b Material concerning archaeological sites in Tidewater Maryland and Virginia

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2619B
Creators:
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Fowke, Gerard, 1855-1933
Marye, William Bose, 1886-1979
Dates:
1889-92
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
2 Items
1/ 2 inches
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes notes, maps, sketches of artifacts, newspaper clippings, and letters. Much of the material is in Holmesʹ hand, but some is in the hand of others, including Gerard Fowke, who assisted Holmes in the field work (see Bureau of American Ethnology annual reports). Fowkes catalog of archeological material from Gala Water, Virginia, is included. Also a letter, William B. Marye to D. I. Bushnell Jr., 11/5/15, and reply re a shell heap in Hartford County, Maryland, with photographs.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2619-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2619-b

Local Note

Local Note
Formerly cataloged as a Bushnell manuscript. Old card retired. Authorship pointed out by Stephen Potter, 3/23/78.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Shell heaps Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Maps Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Clippings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Notes Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Letters Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gala Water (Virginia) -- Archeology Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Maryland -- Archeology Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hartford County (Maryland) -- Archeology Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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