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- Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (Image withheld, pending review)
Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (Image withheld, pending review)
Object Details
- Collection History
- Excavated or purchased from local residents in 1931 by journalist and anthropologist Gregory Mason (1889-1968) during fieldwork sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and MAI.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- AD 1100–1600 (Tairona period)
- Catalog Number
- 18/1745
- Barcode
- 181745.000
- Culture/People
- possibly Tairona (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Expedition sponsor
- Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI-HF), 1916-1989
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (The University Museum/Penn Museum)
- Expedition leader
- Gregory Mason, Non-Indian, 1889-1968
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Modeled
- Place
- Gayraca (Gairaca); Santa Marta Municipality; Magdalena Department; Colombia
- See related items
- Tairona (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Record ID
- NMAI_194414
- Usage
- CC0
