Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card notes '33 Shell wampum earrings'. This is quoted from entry number 33 in 'Folk-Lore of the Musquakie Indians of North America and Catalogue of Musquakie beadwork and other objects in the Collection of the Folk-Lore Society' by Mary Alicia Owen published by D.Nutt, London, 1904. A photocopy is held in MAA archives.
18/12/2019
Created by: Katrina Dring on 18/12/2019

Description (CMS Description)
Folder containing photo-stat and typescript lists of Musquakie artefacts. North American Indian letters/articles from Iowa Archaeological Society Catalogue of beadwork and other objects known as the Owen Collection.
Article by Alison K. Brown, " The Mary Alicia Owen Collection of Mesquakie Beadwork in Cambridge" , Journal of Museum Ethnography, No 9, 1997.
Letters relating to collection.
01/06/1998
Created by: maa on 01/06/1998