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Edward H. Davis
Edward Harvey Davis (1862-1951) was a field collector for the Museum of the American Indian in New York City who acquired many artifacts from various indigenous groups in San Diego County, California, San Diego county and northwestern Mexico (including the Seris) for that museum (now part of the Smithsonian). Biography Born to Lewis S. Davis and Christine Smith Davis on 18 June 1862 in New York, Davis grew up in Brooklyn and attended the Brooklyn Art Guild, developing skills in drawing and drafting. He worked for a time in New York in the accounting office of his family's shipping firm, Jonas Smith & Company. In 1885, ill with Bright's disease, Bright’s disease, Davis followed his older brother Henry to San Diego, where the elder Davis had established an office of the family shipping firm and expanded into lumber and mining interests. The younger Davis found work as a surveyor and a draftsman, drawing maps and house plans. In 1887, he helped draw plans for the Hotel del Coron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of The American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian–New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House in Manhattan, New York City. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and artifacts by and about Native Americans. The center has its origin in the ''Museum of the American Indian'' founded by George Heye in 1916. It became part of the national museum and Smithsonian in 1987. History The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903. He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. By early 1987, U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was proposing legislation that would turn over the Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmor Brook Weaver
Emor ( he, אֱמֹר — Hebrew for "speak," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 31st weekly Torah portion ( he, פָּרָשָׁה, ''parashah'') in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah describes purity rules for priests ( he, כֹּהֲנִים, ''Kohanim''), recounts the holy days, describes the preparations for the lights and bread in the sanctuary, and tells the story of a blasphemer and his punishment. The parashah constitutes . It has the most verses (but not the most letters or words) of any of the weekly Torah portions in the Book of Leviticus, and is made up of 6,106 Hebrew letters, 1,614 Hebrew words, 124 verses and 215 lines in a Torah Scroll ( he, סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה, ''Sefer Torah''). (Parashah Vayikra has the most letters and words of any weekly Torah portion in Leviticus.) Jews generally read it in early May, or rarely in late April. Jews also read parts of the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
