Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen drawings made during an expedition to the Rocky Mountains
odd: label: Variant Title
content: Previously titled "Indian Activities and Animals 1851."
name: label: Creator
content: Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905
label: Collector
content: Rau, Charles, 1826-1887
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Möllhausen, Balduin, 1825-1905
label: Collector
content: Rau, Charles, 1826-1887
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains
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content: Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen drawings made during an expedition to the Rocky Mountains
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Heinrich Balduin Möllhausen (1825—1905) was a German writer, traveler and artist who visited the United States and participated in three separate expeditions exploring the American frontier. In 1851 Möllhausen joined the expedition of Paul Wilhelm, Duke of Württemberg as a scout and draftsman.  The group traveled westward from St. Louis to the Rocky Mountains and Fort Laramie over the Oregon Trail.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Drawings (visual works) (ink and watercolor)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1851
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The drawings were found by Neil M. Judd among the personal papers of Charles M. Rau and deposited in the USNM collections (USNM Accession 143553).  The collection was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1970.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS378511
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of nine (9) drawings made by Balduin Möllhausen during the expedition of Paul Wilhelm to the Rocky Mountains in 1851.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: This collection was separated from the Charles Rau papers held by the National Anthropological Archives.  

There were originally 10 drawings in the collection.  USNM catalog number 378,520, drawing of buffalo hunting, was given to D. I. Bushnell, Jr. on  April, 1937 in exchange for shell bead specimens from Big Mound, St Louis, Missouri. The Peabody Museum at Harvard University now holds this drawing (see "Buffalo Hunt" Object Number 41-72-10/443).