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Article: New England missionaries and American Indian art at the Peabody Essex Museum.(Salem, Massachusetts)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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The quill-decorated birch-bark box shown in Plate II contains a carefully written note dated August 5, 1831, that reads:
This morn[ing] the mission family and several of our friends, accompanied S. Hall & wife, E. Ayer; the teacher, & Mrs. Campbell, the interpreter to the Lake Shore, where we united in singing the Missionary hymn....After singing we commended them by prayer;...& they left us for La Point, an island in [Lake] superior, about 600 miles distant from Mackinaw, where they commence their missionary labours.
The box is one of the American Indian objects collected by nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries that are now in the Peabody Essex ...