Animal tusk (Image withheld)
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of R.T. James of Halifax County, Virginia; subsequently in the collection of Gardner Mason Sherman (ca. 1850-1906, a well-known collector in South Hadley, Massachusetts); acquired by George Heye from an unknown source in 1905.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- probably AD 1540–1700
- Catalog Number
- 5331
- Barcode
- 005331.000
- Culture/People
- possibly Mid-Atlantic (archaeological) (attributed)
- Possible collector
- R. T. James, Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- R. T. James, Non-Indian
- Gardner Mason Sherman (Gardner M. Sherman), Non-Indian, ca. 1850-1906
- Object Type
- Materials: Raw
- Object Name
- Animal tusk (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Pig/boar tooth/teeth/tusk
- Techniques
- Unmodified
- Place
- Grave 50; Halifax County; Virginia; USA
- See related items
- Mid-Atlantic (archaeological)
- Materials: Raw
- Record ID
- NMAI_5507
