Abstract
The Edwin Hamilton Davis collection of American antiquities is a significant record of the prehistoric people known as the Hopewell – a Woodland Indian culture that flourished in present-day Ohio from c.100 BC to AD 500. The circumstances in which the collection originated and those that eventually brought it to the British Museum represent a significant chapter in the history of archaeology and Davis's place within the nineteenth-century intellectual tradition of antiquarianism and collecting. The collection embodies his legacy as an archaeological investigator and a connoisseur of American aboriginal art.
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