Edgar Dewdney Collection at the Royal Albert Museum of Exeter
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Edgar Dewdney was an English born immigrant to Canada in the mid 1800's. He became a government official taking the offices of Indian Commissioner to the North West Territories, Minister of the Interior and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Later Edgar Dewdney was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. Most likely it was during his time in office that he began his collection of Native American items. Edgar asked that his collection of 101 items be donated to the Royal Albert Museum in Exeter upon his death. His collection was moved in two parts over three years.
Having not had the chance to view and photograph the collections at Exeter; we have only 10 item's photographed from his collection. However, only 12 of the 101 items are reported to have come from the Plains of Alberta and Northern Montana. Mr.Tony Eccles has kindly allowed the Blackfoot Digital Library use of these documents and images for educational purposes. Documents and images are not to be reproduced or published with out permission from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
You can find the Royal Albert Memorial Museums Blackfoot page here:
http://www.rammworldculturesonline.org.uk/Research/Blackfoot/About/
