MS 7118 Catalog of Specimens
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7118
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division
label: Creator
content: Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
place: label: Place
content: United States -- Archeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division
label: Creator
content: Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Volumes
label: Extent
content: 12 Items (1/2 in. )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1882-87
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred from the Processing Lab by Bruce Smith, 9/12/79. Dr. Smith sorted the volumes into sets.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7118
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Generally provided is a BAE (Thomas) number, USNM number, type of specimen, location found, and special remarks concerning provenience, and the collector, and the collectorʹs number (mark). Two sets have explanatory remarks at the beginning of volume 1. There are irregularities in the sequence of the entries but generally they are by USNM number.
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are two sets of the catalog, one maintained by the BAE and the other by the USNM. In addition, there are three volumes of a third set. The catalog is described by Cyrus Thomas in BAE AR 12 (1890-91), page 22.