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Dates:

2 Dec. 1828

Original paper slip text:2 Dec. 1828

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

Naw-kaw

Original paper slip text:Naw-Kaw

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Title:

Certificate to "Tshi-zhunk-Rau-Raw" [

Naw-kaw

Original paper slip text:Naw-Kaw

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] and other Winnebago chiefs re their visit to Washington

Length:

1p.

Notes:

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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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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