Catawba deerskin map (1929 facsimile)

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Catawba deerskin map facsimile

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Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Catalog notes

Circles and connecting paths put communities and relationships at the center of this map of the Southeast. It preserves an Indigenous view through copies of a deerskin original presented to South Carolina governor Francis Nicholson. Its story is about diplomacy and communication as much as distance. The displayed object is the Library of Congress’s 1929 photocopy of the surviving manuscript in the British Library, rather than the original deerskin.

Original catalog record, source and attribution