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Edward W. Nelson (Edward William Nelson/E.W. Nelson), Non-Indian, 1855-1934
Previous owner
U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
Collection History
Collected between 1877 and 1881 by Edward W. Nelson (1855-1934, a naturalist with the US Army Signal Corps on board the "Corwin" and assigned to collect natural and cultural specimens for the U.S. National Museum); purchased by the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) in 1897; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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Place
Point Romanof; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA