Shell (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1000–1400
- Culture/People
- probably Diaguita (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Expedition
- Mrs. Thea Heye Chile Expedition (1929-1930) (Mrs. Thea Heye - Lothrop Expedition)
- Expedition leader
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Collection History
- Collected in 1929 during the Thea Heye Chile Expedition, led by anthropologist Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) and sponsored by MAI and Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
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- Place
- General digging; Compañía Baja; Elqui Province; Coquimbo Region IV; Chile
- See related items
- Diaguita (archaeological culture)
- Materials: Waste
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 16/9976
- Barcode
- 169976.000
- Object Type
- Materials: Waste
- Object Name
- Shell (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Shell/shells
- Techniques
- Unmodified
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_182040