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Booklet, Ancient American Indian: flint type bulletin
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2019.1Description:
Munger, Lynn. Ancient American Indian: flint type bulletin. Angolo, Ind.: Potawatomi Museum, 1958.The Ancient American Indian: flint type bulletin was written by Lynn Munger and published in 1958 by the Potawatomi Museum in Angolo, Indiana. The booklet contains "69 forms sketched and identified. Plus, the supplement 'Fake Flint Rocket Exposed'"
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1958Materials:
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11.375"" h 8.375"" w .125"" dCollection Tier:
Tier 2Related Entities:
Lynn Munger (creator)Lynn Munger of Steuben County, Indiana graduated from Orland High School in 1935 and attended Manchester College, where he developed an interest in archaeology, music and Native American culture. He received his college degree in 1938, during the Great Depression. He worked at Auburn Rubber Co. before joining the Navy.
He attended a four-month U.S. Navy medical school in San Diego, and served 17 months on the USS Enterprise before World War II began. Munger was on base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. Munger worked as a teacher after his discharge and got involved in real estate, purchasing property on Lake Pleasant, Crooked Lake, Jimmerson Lake, Nevada Mills and Fremont. He began dealing in art, antiques, guns and coins while managing a nursery at Nevada Mills and playing in bands.
His address labels identify him as “Prof. L. Munger, Curator.” Munger spent years traveling the United States in search of antiques, many Native American items that became part of Fremont bank owner Earl Ford McNaughton’s collection. He started the Potawatomi Museum, a licensed Indiana museum to display and sell Native American cultural objects. GRPM records show that his contact in Grand Rapids, Dr. Ruth Herrick, made purchases from him.
(Source: https://www.kpcnews.com/news/latest/heraldrepublican/article_46e6ae16-92dc-5974-8f27-f2984e2dffd9.html)
Ruth Herrick (donor)
Born on July 6, 1895 in Ohio, Ruth Herrick became known as one of the first women physicians in Michigan. She studied at the University of Chicago Medical College and at Blodgett Memorial Hospital. Afterwards she began her practice in 1931 in Grand Rapids. She was an avid collector and took a strong interest in archaeology, having lectured at the Greenfield Village Museum and wrote and published a book entitled "Greentown glass: the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company and allied manufacturers (1959)". In 1961 she cooperated with the Kent County Medical Society in compiling a historic medical collection. She retired in 1973 and later passed away after an automobile accident on June 7, 1974, with many of her assets bequeathed to the Public Museum.
