Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 900–1565 (Early to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- possibly South Appalachian Mississippian: St. Johns II (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore (C.B. Moore), Non-Indian, 1852-1936
- Previous owner
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Seller
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
- Collection History
- Excavated by archaeologist Clarence B. Moore (1852-1936) in 1891 or 1892; donated to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by C.B. Moore soon afterward; purchased by MAI from the Academy of Natural Sciences with other C.B. Moore collection materials in 1929.
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- Place
- Near Saint Francis; Mosquito Grove Midden; Saint Francis; Lake County; Florida; USA
- See related items
- South Appalachian Mississippian: St. Johns II (archaeological culture)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/2286
- Barcode
- 172286.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Animal bone
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_184202