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• The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 9, February 25, 2001, Article 10
  

  PORTRAIT GALLERY PEACE MEDAL EXHIBIT
  

  Still more information turned up by the web search:
  Indian Peace Medals from the Schermer Collection are on
  display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
  January 26, 2001 through June 3, 2001. From the museum's
  web site: http://www.si.edu/activity/exhibits/sib.htm
  

  "On view are 19 peace medals presented to Indian tribal
  leaders by the United States government between 1793 and
  1881, along with a British medal depicting George III and
  given to Canadian allies during the War of 1812. The U.S.
  medals, usually made in silver and with a portrait of the
  current President on one side, were often given to secure
  treaties and cement political loyalties. The pipe and hatchet
  motif appeared on the medals until 1850 and symbolized peace.
  

  Also on view is a complete 3-volume set of The History of
  Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and
  James Hall, one of the 19th century's most important works on
  the American Indian. The series, printed in Philadelphia from
  1837-1844, includes biographies of Native American leaders
  and 120 hand-colored lithographic portraits that reproduce
  painting made by Charles Bird King and other artists.
  

  These objects were donated to the National Portrait Gallery
  by Lloyd and Betty Schermer."
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v04n09a10.html

Date publiée

• 2001-02-25

Volume

• 4

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