MS 7438 E.A. Mearns Catalog of Collections
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content: NAA MS 7438
name: label: Creator
content: Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916
label: Creator
content: Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-
label: Creator
content: Daniels, Stewart
label: Names
content: American Museum of Natural History -- Photographs
place: label: Place
content: Arizona -- Archeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Mearns, Edgar Alexander, 1856-1916
label: Creator
content: Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-
label: Creator
content: Daniels, Stewart
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume
label: Extent
content: 64 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1890
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Sent to the archives by Joseph Brown, of the Processing Lab, December 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7438
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Volumes
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The bound volume is a catalog of archeological and ethnological collections made on Clear Creek, Beaver Creek, Verde River, Fossil Creek, Oak Creek, and Salt River in Arizona. Included are Mearns's numbers, names, dimensions, and other descriptivive material, locations, and dates of findings (between 1884-1887). There is also a summary list of stone tools sent to the American Museum of Natural History. A few references to photographs (a note indicates what had been sent to the museum) are incomplete.
label: Scope and Contents
content: There are also a few related notes, pages from a diary, ground plans of ruins on the Middle Verde, an inventory of items taken from Montezuma's Castle, a letter from Cosmos Mindeleff concerning plans for Mearns to plot locations of ruins on a USGS quadrant map, notes concerning ruins on the San Juan River by Stewart Daniels, notes on the Acequia Ruin in Arizona, and a note on Mearns's photograps and his photography.