Name/Title
Letter from Alice Palmer Henderson to Harry GeorgeEntry/Object ID
Q1430.634.185BDescription
A four-page letter from Alice Palmer Henderson to Harry George noting the shipment of a photograph and discussing a pottery collection. Vol 1 P. 185B
Dear Sir:
Your reply just received. Enclosed please find the
picture. This is an unusual opportunity, for it is all but impossible
to obtain baskets now.
I did not keep a copy of my letter to you and I cannot
recall whether or not I also told you of a really wonderful group of pottery that
a friend, widow of an army officer, asked me to sell for her. It embraces an
Aztec idol almost 21 inches high in finest condition but for a small hole in the back
of the head. This was obtained my her many years ago from Mexican refugees while her
husband was stationed on the border. ???? smuggled over in it is against the law of
Mexico to export antiques of that sort, There is another smaller Aztec idol sent me
from Pam. There are also seven tools, etc Pre-Columbian, from graves in the interior
of Panama, Chisigni Indians . One has little good luck balls sent loose inside the legs
The group is rare , valuable, and reasonable at $500 (five hundred dollars) She sent me
rich collector now. But he wants only the large Aztec idol and she wishes to sell all.
They are crated and could be shipped at once. I can guarantee that they are a find.
If you wish them, too, please lose no time in ordering.
If you are in this part of the country I should like to show you my
own wonderful Eskimo & Indian collection in the museum.Catman
has just visited us again and giving me his M.S.S. of two Indian
songs to place in my case of rare old Indian musical instruments. He and
Dr. Rudolf Cronan of the Museum of Natural History, N. Y. and many others, say
my collections though small, 1500 objects, is the very finest that have ever seen.
Please answer as promptly as you ???? about baskets and pottery as I wish to
close at once - One of Catman's M.S.S. was big Ho Ye Warrior which I quote in my
(there seems there is a page missing as the last sentence is incomplete and there is no closing. )Subject
Alice Palmer Henderson
Tacoma, Washington
Baskets
Pottery
EskimoSubject Person/Organization
Harry L. George Collection
