MS 7193 Rubbing of petroglyphs at Bellows Falls, Vermont
The collection consists of one (1) rubbing made by W. Elliot Woodward on a large sheet of cloth. The rubbing shows petroglyphs at Bellows Falls, Vermont.
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The rubbing was donated to the United States National Museum along with two large stone mortars found in New England and a piece of rock containing a petroglyph removed from the Bellows Falls site by W. Elliot Woodward in 1882. The other items in the collection were destroyed by the museum in the 1920s and 1940s. The rubbing was listed as missing in 1948; it may have been transferred to the Bureau of American Ethnology prior to that date. There is no accession information for the rubbing in the National Anthropological Archives, and it was not cataloged until the 1970s.
NAA MS 7193
USNM Accession 11592
USNM Catalog 59791
MS 7193 Rubbing of petroglyphs at Bellows Falls, Vermont, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Previously titled: Tracing of rock inscriptions at Bellows Falls, Vermont.
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