2 Dec. 1828
Original paper slip text:2 Dec. 1828
Certificate to "Tshi-zhunk-Rau-Raw" [ ] and other Winnebago chiefs re their visit to Washington
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- New accession. --SEG, 2/15/2012
- Certification that JQA smoked peace pipe with Naw-kaw, a Winnebago chief, in Washington, D.C.
- Louise Kellogg article states, "The original ... was presented in 1930 to the Museum of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa."
- Another copy is privately owned; see H. A. Moe to LHB, Moorhead, Minn., 18 Nov. 1954.
- The principal chief was evidently Naw-Kaw, a portrait of whom is in McKenney and Hall, Indian Tribes, 1:72 and 2:225.
- Offered for sale May 1986, Guthman Americana, P.O. Box 392, Westport, Conn. 06881.
- Advertisement with picture of document and accompanying lithograph of Tshi-zhunk-kau-kaw in "The Magazine Antiques", May 1986, p. 1018.
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Original held by:The New York Historical Society
From the collection: Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit
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Printed :Wis. Acad. of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Trans., 29 (1935):35 (in an article by Louise Phelps Kellogg, "The Winnebago Visit to Washington," p. 347–354).
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