Ear spool (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 1500 BC–AD 1550 (Formative to Post-Classic period)
- Culture/People
- probably Central Mexico/Valley of Mexico (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Zelia Nuttall (Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall), Non-Indian, 1857-1933
- Previous owner
- Zelia Nuttall (Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall), Non-Indian, 1857-1933
- Seller
- Zelia Nuttall (Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall), Non-Indian, 1857-1933
- MAI agent
- George Hubbard Pepper (GHP), Non-Indian, 1873-1924
- Artist/Maker
- Marguerite Hill Crandall (Mrs. Lou R. Crandall), Non-Indian, 1896-1988
- Collection History
- Collected or excavated at an unknown date by anthropologist and archaeologist Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933); purchased by George Hubbard Pepper (1873-1924, MAI staff member) from Zelia Nuttall in 1906 during a collecting trip sponsored by George Heye.
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- Place
- Chalco; Chalco Municipality, Texcoco Region; México State; Mexico
- Geographical Areas
- Valley of Mexico
- See related items
- Central Mexico/Valley of Mexico (archaeological culture)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 1/1185
- Barcode
- 011185.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Ear spool (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Incised, punctate
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_12018