Copy of William Bartram's Observations of the Creek and Cherokee Indians
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 173,683
label: Place
content: Philadelphia Pennsylvania
name: label: Creator
content: Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888
label: Former owner
content: Bartram, William, 1739-1823
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888
culture: label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
label: Culture
content: Cherokee
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 94 Pages
label: Extent
content: 1 Notebook
label: Extent
content: 5 Items (tracings )
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1847
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred to Office of Anthropology Archives by Clifford Evans, 2/65. USNM Catalog No. 173,683; Accession No. 31, 588.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS173683
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Notebooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Copy of Bartram's 1789 manuscript Observations of the Creek and Cherokee Indians manually transcribed by J. Woodbridge Davis, son of Edwin H. Davis, presumably for his father's research.  Also contains some correspondence, Davis to Dr. Thomas Wilson, USNM; Wilson to Secretary Langley, 1898.