[Specimens in the Sloane Collection, British Museum, brought to England from New England]
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content: BAE GN.963 L
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Photographer not recorded
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content: 1 Glass negative
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Glass negatives
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content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
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content: See Bushnell, "The Sloane Collection in the British Museum," American Anthropologist, n.s., Vol.8, No.4, pp.671-85. From the British Museum Catalogue description: 758: A combe made of a moose horn from the east parts of New England, used amongst the native Indians; 1730: An Indian Spoon make of the breast bone of a pinguin [great auk, Alca impennis] made by [an Indian man named] Papenau. anno. 1702; 1736: A fishing line made of the wild Indian hemp with the shank bone of a fawn which serves both as hook and bait. The fish biting at it swallowing it down.