Cherokee materials, Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
Culture:
Language: English
Date: 1792-1796
Contributor: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject: Zoology | Birds | Natural history | Animals--Nomenclature | Birds | Diseases | Folklore
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 2 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Cherokees. Letter to Thomas Pennant, sending specimens of birds called Onacloneita by visiting Cherokee Indians; and letter to John G. E. Heckewelder, inquiring whether any Indians ever have a sickly white color or white spots on them and mentioning Cherokee belief that their ancestors found a race of "develish white-people" when they came to the area then inhabited. [From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection Mss.B.B284d