Letter : Anadarko, Ind. Ter., to the Director of the Smithsonian Institute [John Wesley Powell], Washington, D.C., 1887 Aug. 25.

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Letter : Anadarko, Ind. Ter., to the Director of the Smithsonian Institute [John Wesley Powell], Washington, D.C., 1887 Aug. 25.

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August 25, 1887, letter to J.W. Powell, head of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, written on a folded sheet also containing the title page to the proof copy of Hadley's 1887 work, A list of the primary gestures in Indian sign-talk.

1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 22 cm. + enclosure ((1 folded sheet) ; 18 cm.)

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