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Major John Wesley Powell (J.W. Powell), Non-Indian, 1834-1902
Previous owner
U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
Collection History
Collected between 1871 and 1874 during an exploration and survey of the Colorado River by Major John Wesley W. Powell (1834-1902, later head of the US Geological Survey and the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology); acquired by the US National Museum (later the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) in 1874; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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