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Journal of the History of Collections 2004 16(1):59-87; doi:10.1093/jhc/16.1.59
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In his own right: Dr Edwin Hamilton Davis and the Davis collection of American antiquities

Terry A. Barnhart

The Edwin Hamilton Davis collection of American antiquities is a significant record of the prehistoric people known as the Hopewell – a Woodland Indian culture that flourished in present-day Ohio from c.100 BC to AD 500. The circumstances in which the collection originated and those that eventually brought it to the British Museum represent a significant chapter in the history of archaeology and Davis's place within the nineteenth-century intellectual tradition of antiquarianism and collecting. The collection embodies his legacy as an archaeological investigator and a connoisseur of American aboriginal art.

+ Address for correspondence Professor Terry A. Barnhart, History Department, Eastern Illinois University, 2751 Coleman Hall, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920-3099, USA. cftb{at}eiu.edu


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