New England missionaries and American Indian art at the Peabody Essex Museum - Salem, Massachusetts

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 1999 by John R. Grimes

2 Joseph Tracy et al., History of American Missions to the Heathen, from Their Commencement to the Present Time (Worcester, 1840), pp. 322-344.

3 Quoted in John A. Andrew III, Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth: New England Congregationalists and Foreign Missions, 1800-1830 (University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 1976), p. 81.

4 Tracy et al., History off American Missions, p. 26.

5 Ibid., pp. 66-67.

6 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, ed. James Grant Wilson and John Fisk, vol. 5 (New York, 1888), p. 254.

7 Grace Steele Woodward, The Cherokees (1963; University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1982), pp. 143-144.

8 Photocopy of a letter to Edmund Longley, June 22, 1837, (Stephen R. Riggs and family papers, Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul), quoted in "Longley-Riggs Letters 1832-1869," comp. E. R. Gutch and M. A. Riggs (this manuscript compilation is in the collection of a descendant of Stephen Riggs; a photocopy of this compilation is in the Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts).

9 Quoted in Tracy et al., History of American Missions, p. 207.

10 Woodward, The Cherokees, pp. 192-218.

11 Ibid., p. 141.

JOHN R. GRIMES is the curator of Native American art and the deputy director for special projects at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.