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Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:English
Date:1792-1813
Contributor:Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Subject:Medicine | Little Turtle, 1747?-1812 | Physical anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:373 p.
Description: This item primarily contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths) and matters pertaining to life in Philadelphia. Some Indigenous-related content includes questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indigenous physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; a meeting with Captain Wells and the Myaamia leader, Little Turtle; plus some speculations on Indigenous skin color at the equator.
Collection:Benjamin Rush commonplace book, 1792-1813 (Mss.B.R89c)