Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 21, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 68
Additional Source Text:
The donor was "of Chester, Pa."
Notes:
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography, Harvard University, acquired many cultural items in 1899 from Moses Kimball's Boston Museum. Kimball and P. T. Barnum jointly purchased many of the Peale collections when they were sold about 1849. This donation cannot be positively identified with a particular extant artifact, but it may well have been the throwing stick at the Peabody pictured here.
Thomas Robinson (1768-1847) was a merchant sea captain and lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812.
