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Cone-shaped object (Image withheld, pending review)
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents in 1926 during the Mrs. Thea Heye North Carolina Expedition. led by MAI staff member Charles O. Turbyfill (1888-1966) and sponsored by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1000 BC-AD 1550 (Early Woodland to Late Mississippian period)
- Catalog Number
- 15/1195
- Barcode
- 151195.000
- Culture/People
- possibly Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Woodland and South Appalachian Mississippian Traditions
- Expedition
- Mrs. Thea Heye North Carolina Expedition (1926)
- Expedition leader
- Charles O. Turbyfill (Charles Orr Turbyfill/C. O. Turbyfill), Non-Indian, 1888-1966
- Presenter/funding source
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Object Type
- Unknown Function
- Object Name
- Cone-shaped object (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Place
- Culberson; Cherokee County; North Carolina; USA
- See related items
- Multiple archaeological cultures
- Unknown Function
- Record ID
- NMAI_162348
- Usage
- CC0
