Name/Title
Letter from unknown to Harry GeorgeEntry/Object ID
Q1430.634.275ADescription
Vol 1 P. 275A
Letter from an unknown United States Indian Service Missionary to Harry George discussing baskets made by the tribes in the area.
Dear Sir-
I am the Indian Missionary at Greenville, Cal. Tho' I live at the Mission and Ind. school, of which Dr. Tucker is the Supt.", your 7 miles from town.
And yesterday while in town Mr. J. R. Murray knowing that I dealt quite a little in Indian baskets
hand me your letter and asked me to kindly reply. There is no man better acquainted with the
Indians in this country than myself, having visited nearly every camp within a hundred miles of here,
and my wife also being the field matron among the Indians we devote our entire live among the Indians
Our Indians are of the Pinto, Washoe and Digger Tribes - quite well mixed up.
Now as to their basket work we think we have some of the best workers in the nation. They make the grass basket root basket and the maple wood basket in a great ( evidently another page is missing)Subject
Department of the Interior
United States Indian Service
Greenville, California
Mr. J. R. Murray
Baskets
Paiute
Washoe
DiggerSubject Person/Organization
Harry L. George Collection