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Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of José Felix Seijo (1879-ca. 1950), a Puerto Rican coffee farmer, census taker, judge, and collector; purchased from Felix Seijo in 1912 by Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930, an anthropologist with the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology who worked in the Caribbean) while acting on behalf of George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- AD 1200-1500
- Catalog Number
- 3/1975
- Barcode
- 031975.000
- Culture/People
- probably Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Seller
- Felix Seijo (José Felix Seijo), Non-Indian, 1879-ca. 1950
- Previous owner
- Felix Seijo (José Felix Seijo), Non-Indian, 1879-ca. 1950
- MAI agent
- Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (J. Walter Fewkes), Non-Indian, 1850-1930
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Object Name
- Figure
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Pecked, carved, ground
- Place
- La Esperanza; Arecibo Municipality; Puerto Rico
- Archipelago
- Greater Antilles
- Island Name
- Puerto Rico
- Geographical Areas
- Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
- See related items
- Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture)
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Record ID
- NMAI_33984
