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[Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina].

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[Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina].

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"This map describing the scituation [sic] of the several nations of Indians to the NW of South Carolina was coppyed [sic] from a draught drawn & painted on a deer skin by an Indian Cacique and presented to Francis Nicholson Esqr. Governor of South Carolina by whom it is most humbly dedicated to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales."
"A map, sometimes known as the 'Catawba Deerskin Map', describing the situation of the several nations of the Indians to the north-west of South Carolina."--British Library.
LC Many nations, 191
Exhibition: Indians of North America, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., August, 1977.
Photocopy of map now in the British Library: Add. MS 4Y23.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
LC copy has some lines marked in red.

Ancient Maps from the Library of Congress. 13th -18th Century Maps.

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01/01/1724
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Nicholson, Francis, 1655-1728.
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Library of Congress
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