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National Anthropological Archives
MS 416 Draft of letter to O. H. Marshall signed by M. B. Pierce, containing notes on Red Jacket, White Chief, Big Kettle, Little Billy
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS416
- Creators:
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Pierce, M. B. (Maris Bryant), 1811-1874Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937Marshall, O. H. (Orsamus Holmes), 1813-1884
- Dates:
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February 7, 1874
- Languages:
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Materials in Aztec (Nahuatl).
- Physical Description:
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2 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Reply to inquiry about burial places of certain Iroquois men: Red Jacket, Farmer's Brother. Pollard, Young King, Big Kettle, Little Billy, White Chief. Gives Indian name but no information re burial site except for Red Jacket. "...will write...again"
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
This was probably preliminary to the reburial of Red Jacket and other chiefs (mentioned in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, II, 363 and Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Volume III, 1885) in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. October 9, 1884.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 416, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 416
Local Note
Local Note
O. H. Marshall was the author of "The Niagara Frontier", Buffalo, 1865; and "The First Visit of De La Salle to the Senecas made in 1669." Buffalo, 1874. -MCB 10-57
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