Early footed wardrobe or schrank. Rather plain piece except for a bit of decoration on the cornice and iron bars that span across the chest with locks on them. The hinges are long iron on each of the 4 doors and the drop front section.
Joe Nickell; foreword by Charles Hamilton ; photographs from the author's collection by Robert H. van Outer ; forensic assistance from John F. Fischer.
Library has photocopy of section dealing with Pennsylvania only.(unpaged)
Foreward by J. W. Powell.
Summary
Of the early reports of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, one of the most significant is Col. Garrick Mallery's report on the picture-writing of the American Indians. Except for a special section on petroglyphs (rock-writing), most of the examples are roughly contemporary with the writing of the report and were gathered by ethnologists, explorers, and expeditions to reservations. As such, the emphasis is on the meaning of the pictures, and the differences between the styles of picture-writing of the various tribes. This book was written in 1893. For anthropologists, sociologists, historians, or artists, Col. Mallery's account is still the basic study of North American Indian picture-writing, Its wealth of pictorial material is not to be found anywhere else. And since most of the material was collected by contemporaries while picturing was still an important method of communication, the ethnologists were often assisted by the Indians themselves in decoding the pictographs and discovering the wealth of information that was conveyed by them.
