Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno
Object Details
- Collection History
- Excavated by anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930, director of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology) in 1912, during a Caribbean expedition jointly supported by the Bureau of American Ethnology and George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 300 BC-AD 800
- Catalog Number
- 3/2815
- Barcode
- 032815.000
- Culture/People
- possibly Barrancoid Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Expedition sponsor
- Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), 1879-1965
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Excavator
- Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (J. Walter Fewkes), Non-Indian, 1850-1930
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Painted, modeled
- Place
- Erin Bay shell midden; Erin; Saint Patrick County; Trinidad; Trinidad and Tobago
- Archipelago
- Lesser Antilles
- Island Name
- Trinidad
- Geographical Areas
- Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
- See related items
- Barrancoid Tradition (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Record ID
- NMAI_35156
