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January 23, 2004
Lewis and Clark
Harvard has turned up an old Lewis and Clark curio at long-last.
When a breathless Castle McLaughlin called last week to say she had found "the necklace," Gaylord Torrence knew exactly what she was referring to: the so-called grizzly bear claw necklace, acquired by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their fabled exploration of the American West.
The item had been donated to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where McLaughlin is the associate curator of Native American ethnography, but had been missing since the museum first cataloged it in 1899. "It's like finding a Vermeer in the attic," said Torrence, curator of Native American art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
The item had been donated to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where McLaughlin is the associate curator of Native American ethnography, but had been missing since the museum first cataloged it in 1899. "It's like finding a Vermeer in the attic," said Torrence, curator of Native American art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 23, 2004 06:44 AM