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Catalog Data

Extent:
1 Glass negative
Type:
Archival materials
Glass negatives
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
See Bushnell, "The Sloane Collection in the British Museum," American Anthropologist, n.s., Vol.8, No.4, pp.671-85. From the British Museum Catalogue description: 758: A combe made of a moose horn from the east parts of New England, used amongst the native Indians; 1730: An Indian Spoon make of the breast bone of a pinguin [great auk, Alca impennis] made by [an Indian man named] Papenau. anno. 1702; 1736: A fishing line made of the wild Indian hemp with the shank bone of a fawn which serves both as hook and bait. The fish biting at it swallowing it down.
Local Numbers:
BAE GN.963 L
Genre/Form:
Photographs
See more items in:
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Photographer not recorded
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw36de3c484-9623-45d3-b20c-35b8fb9ad9ec
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-176-ref12402