Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888
- Collection Artist
- Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888
- See more items in
- MS 3146 Edwin Hamilton Davis papers
- Date
- 1856-1867
- Container
- Box 1, Folder 2
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- MS 3146 Edwin Hamilton Davis papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Letters to Davis from Thomas Jennings Hand and Joseph Hawes, as well as notes related to Incan artifacts. Also includes a copy of Prospectus of Messrs de Schlagintweits' Collection of Ethnographical Heads from India and High Asia, a catalogue produced by John Ambrose Barth, Bookseller and Publisher, Leipzig. Germany, of plaster casts made from living people of heads and hands. Published in 1859 by C. and F. Unger, Berlin.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1670445000700-1670445001174-0
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