Painting depicting method of making salt
name: label: Artist
content: Cassedy, Edwin G., 1885-1950
place: label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Artist
content: Cassedy, Edwin G., 1885-1950
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Edwin Gray Cassedy (1885-1950) was an American artist who served as illustrator for the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) from 1932-1950.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Paintings (visual works) (paint on canvas, framed, 20.75 x 14.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937
container: label: Container
content: Item 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The provenance of the collection is unknown; there is no accession information available.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0337
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Paintings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Paintings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Paintings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a painting by Edwin G. Cassedy depicting a method of making salt.  The painting may have been created to accompany an unpublished paper by David Ives Bushnell, Jr. titled "Salt among Native Tribes of the Mississippi Valley and Eastward."  The painting is signed and dated by the artist: EGC 1937.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art holds the Edwin G. Cassedy works of art, circa 1938-1959.

The Peabody Museum Archives at Harvard University holds a draft of Bushnell's unpublished paper in the David I. Bushnell, Jr. collection records.