Sketches of Monuments and Antiques Found in the Mounds, Tombs, and Ancient Cities of America
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content: North American (Mississippi Valley and Ohio), Central American and Peruvian antiquities - North American (Mississippi Valley and Ohio)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888
label: Collection Artist
content: Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888
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content: MS 3146 Edwin Hamilton Davis papers
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content: 1 Item (black portfolio, 19 x 27 inches)
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content: 92 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1858
container: label: Container
content: Folder 1-21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Graphic Materials
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content: Pages
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content: A portfolio containing 92 drawings of objects found in mounds, tombs, and ancient cities of the Mississippi Valley, Mexico, Central America, and Peru  arranged, classified, and described by Davis.  The drawings were made by James Plunkett.  Most of the objects were in Davis' personal collection.  

Five deteriorating acetate negatives that originally came with the collection have been discarded. Four were copy negatives of some of the drawings. The fifth negative, which has been digitized, is a photograph of an artifact not found among the drawings. The image is a side view of a pipe carved in the shape of a frog crouched to spring. A print made from the digital image has been placed with the collection.