Maps
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
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content: Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 File drawers
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0155, Series 13
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: File drawers
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content: This series includes BAE maps of North America and, to a lesser degree, South America that were collected for research purposes or produced for publications. Although most are prints, several are hand drawn or painted. Maps deserving special mention include John Wesley Powell's map laying out the distribution of American Indian linguistic families in the United States and Canada (BAE map 18); James Mooney's annotated, USGS maps of Cherokee territories (e.g., BAE map 269); John Arrowsmith's "Discoveries in the Artic Sea between Baffin Bay and Cape Bathhurst, 1859" (BAE map 418); John Swanton's map outlining the "Distribution and Interrelation of the Algonquian Dialects, 1911" (BAE map 118); and Alfred Kroeber's "Ritual Cults of California, 1923" (BAE map 91). For further information regarding the maps in this series, please consult "BAE Maps Master List and Special Reports by Subject, Location, Creator and Tribe" in NAA reference room.