Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley

Name: Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley
Author: Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

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Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Verity White, PM for Bureau of American Ethnology and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

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2006-04-17

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Public domain in the USA.

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Mounds -- Mississippi River Valley Mound-builders -- Art Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities Animal sculpture -- Mississippi River Valley E011

About the author

Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

1850–1930

A pioneering American ornithologist and ethnologist, this late-19th- and early-20th-century scientist helped shape both bird study and anthropology in the United States. His career ranged from western fieldwork to museum and government roles, bringing careful observation to everything from natural history to Native American languages and cultures.

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