EPHEMERA

Title: Aboriginal America East of The Mississippi
Object Name: Map
Maker: Morse and Tuttle (Primary maker)
Date Made: 1840 (circa)
1840 (circa)
Place Made: Boston
Boston
Description: Printed map, hand coloured 'Aboriginal America East of The Mississippi' by Morse & Tuttle. Key shows locations of Algonquin, Dahcota [Dakota?], Huron-Iroquois, Catawba, Cherokee, Uchee, Natchez, and Mobilian people. Map may be frontispiece from 1844 publication 'Some Account of the Conduct of The Religious Society of Friends Towards The Indian Tribes in the Settlement of the Colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: With a Brief Narrative of Their Labours for the Civilization and Christian Instruction of the Indians, from the Time of their Settlement in America, to the year 1843'. Published by the Aborigines' Committee of The Meeting for Sufferings.
Materials: paper
Catalogue Number: OMAFP.2015.68
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