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    Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510
    Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510
    Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510
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    Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510

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    Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510

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      Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 - William Henry Holmes

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      Title: Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made

      During the Field Season of 1881

      Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the

      Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82,

      Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510

      Author: William H. Holmes

      Release Date: October 1, 2006 [EBook #19416]

      Language: English

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      SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

      ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE

      OF A

      PORTION OF THE COLLECTIONS MADE BY THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY

      DURING THE

      FIELD SEASON OF 1881.

      WILLIAM H. HOLMES.

      CONTENTS.

      ILLUSTRATIONS.

      ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF A PORTION OF THE ETHNOLOGIC AND ARCHÆOLOGIC COLLECTIONS MADE BY THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY DURING THE YEAR 1881.

      By William H. Holmes.

      COLLECTION MADE BY EDWARD PALMER, IN NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE, AND ARKANSAS.

      INTRODUCTORY.

      Mr. Palmer began his explorations early in July, 1881, and continued with marked success until the end of the year.

      He first paid a visit to the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, and collected a large number of articles manufactured or used by this people, besides a number of antiquities from the same region.

      From Carolina he crossed into Tennessee, and began work by opening a number of mounds in Cocke County. In September he opened a very important mound, which I have named the McMahan Mound. It is located in the vicinity of Sevierville, Sevier

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