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Article: Arts of diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian collection.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- September 1, 2005
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MCLAUGHLIN, CASTLE. Arts of diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian collection. xxiii, 359 pp., maps, plates, figs, illus., bibliogr. Seattle: Univ. Washington Press/Peabody Museum Press, 2004. [pounds sterling]45.95 (cloth), [pounds sterling]30.50 (paper)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-6), America's epic exploratory adventure, is well recognized for the botanical and zoological specimens collected en route that were new to science. Less well known is the Indian collection that is associated with their names. In Arts of diplomacy, Castle McLaughlin, Associate Curator of Native American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum, takes the reader on a detailed and ...