Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1000-1500 (Early to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- possibly South Appalachian Mississippian: Pensacola (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 1901; 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
- Point Washington Cemetery, Choctawhatchee Bay; Point Washington; Walton County; Florida; USA (inferred)
- See related items
- South Appalachian Mississippian: Pensacola (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/4859
- Barcode
- 174859.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Modeled, incised, incised
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_187238