List of articles presented by George Turner
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| TITLE INFORMATION | |||
| Title | List of articles presented by George Turner | ||
| ASSOCIATED NAMES | |||
| creator | American Philosophical Society | ||
| CONTENT DESCRIPTION | |||
| Abstract | Partially printed list in APS Minutes, Feb.24. 1797, p. 251, reads as follows: "List of Western curiosities, presented by Judge Turner, February 10. Indian boy's leggings; calumet; conjuror's mask; bone headed arrow; eight common Miami arrows; stone pestle; ‘stone hatchet formerly in use among the savages, the handle was always a withe--’ ‘petrified buffalo dung [!] from the Rapids of Ohio, where such and various petrifactions are found in abundance'--’'petrified ordure, supposed to be human, from the same place'--'fine fossil coal, resembling the canal [sic] coal of Europe, from Cincinnati on Ohio’ [!]--’ part of one of 30 or 40 trees all completely petrified found...212 miles up the Tennassee [sic] river, having tumbled into it with the bank on which they grew [!] The present specimen appears to have been black walnut’ [!]--Indian bowl, complete, from the bed of the Tennessee--oviform [or aviform?] stone from the Wabash; marine shells and perforated bones from a grave on the great Kenhawa [sic]--’ for the remainder . . . . see page 157.’ This list of twenty-five articles being read, thanks were voted to Judge Turner ‘for this extremely acceptable proof of his Philosophical Industry, and his disposition to gratify them.'" Some of these objects remain in the collections of the APS Museum. | ||
| Language | English (eng) | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Miami Indians | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Myaamia people | ||
| Subject (lcsh) | Archaeology | ||
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |||
| Type | Text | ||
| Genre | Manuscripts | ||
| Format | electronic resource | ||
| Extent | 2 p. | ||
| Digital Origin | reformatted digital | ||
| Reformatting Quality | preservation | ||
| ORIGIN INFORMATION | |||
| Date Issued | 1797-02 | ||
| Date Modified | 2019 | ||
| PARENT COLLECTION | |||
| Title | American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa | ||
| Call Number | APS.Archives.IIa | ||
| URL | https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIa-ead.xml | ||
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