In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the wild St. Francis River region of northeastern Arkansas to collect archaeological specimens for the Peabody Museum. By the time Curtiss completed his fifty-six days of Arkansas fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1,000 pottery vessels to Cambridge and had put the Peabody on the map as the repository of one of the world's finest collections of Mississippian artifacts. John House brings us a lively account of the work of this nineteenth-century fieldworker, the Native culture he explored, and the rich legacies left by both. The result is a vivid re-creation of ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University...
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780873654012ISBN:0873654013
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 120 p. Peabody Museum Collections Series. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PEABODY MUSEUM HARVARD UNIV
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780873654012ISBN:0873654013
Description: New. In 1879 Edwin Curtiss set out for the wild St. Francis River region of northeastern Arkansas to collect archaeological specimens for the Peabody Museum. By the time Curtiss completed his fifty-six days of Arkansas fieldwork, he had sent nearly 1, 000... read more
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