Pictographic letter on birchbark
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
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- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.3: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by Native American tribe or subject / Penobscot
- Date
- 1887
- undated
- Container
- Box 11
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Pictographic letter on birchbark written by a Penobscot Indian from Old Town, Maine; 2 Letters, 1 postcard and a drawing from the original bark with explanation of pictographs. Abby Langdon Alger, July 17-Nov. 15, 1887. 10 pp.
- Collection Restrictions
- Manuscript 2372 is open for research. Access to Manuscript 2372 requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1583874062187-1583874062464-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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