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Typewritten letter from Donald Crabtree to Ed Barry where he discussed how he just returned from his travels and was preparing for flintknapping field school starting in August. He requested raw material: 1,000 pounds of Peacock obsidian sent to Junius Bird at the American Museum of Natural History, 1,000 pounds to be sent to Lucy Lewis at Columbia University, 2,000 pounds, 500 arrow points, and 500 fluted type to be sent to himself in Kimberly. He enclosed a check for the payment and requested that Barry send him larger sizes for his materials and promised him he was going to make him the artifacts he promised him.

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Title:
Letter from Donald Crabtree to Ed Barry
Creator:
Crabtree, Donald "Don" E.
Archival Date:
1969-07-17
Date (ISO):
1969-07-17
Description:
Typewritten letter from Donald Crabtree to Ed Barry where he discussed how he just returned from his travels and was preparing for flintknapping field school starting in August. He requested raw material: 1,000 pounds of Peacock obsidian sent to Junius Bird at the American Museum of Natural History, 1,000 pounds to be sent to Lucy Lewis at Columbia University, 2,000 pounds, 500 arrow points, and 500 fluted type to be sent to himself in Kimberly. He enclosed a check for the payment and requested that Barry send him larger sizes for his materials and promised him he was going to make him the artifacts he promised him.
Recipient:
Barry, Ed
Associated names:
Bordes, Francois; Hanes, Vance; Bird, Junius; Lewis, Lucy
Subjects:
professional correspondence sourcing travel typewritten field school
Location:
Kimberly, Idaho
Latitude:
42.5335806
Longitude:
-114.366119
Location 2:
El Paso, Texas
Latitude 2:
31.76319653
Longitude 2:
-106.4842651
Source Identifier:
CE_B1_F3-Item59
Source:
Donald E. Crabtree Lithic Technology Collection, Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology, University of Idaho
Document Length:
8.5"x11"
Language:
eng
Original format:
typewritten correspondence
Type:
Text
Format:
application/pdf

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"Letter from Donald Crabtree to Ed Barry", Donald E. Crabtree Lithic Technology Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/crabtree/items/ce_b1_f3-item59.html
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