Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 4450 BC–AD 1450 (Late Preceramic to Late Horizon period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Central Andes (archaeological) (attributed)
- Possible seller
- José A. Gayoso (José Galloso), Non-Indian, 1898-1970
- Possible owner
- José A. Gayoso (José Galloso), Non-Indian, 1898-1970
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1928, possibly from José A. Gayoso (1898-1970, a landowner in Chongoyape, Peru, who sidelined in excavating and selling antiquities).
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- Place
- Lambayeque Province; Lambayeque Region; Peru
- See related items
- Central Andes (archaeological)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 16/1997
- Barcode
- 161997.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled, polished
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_173430