Vessel
- Date created
- AD 1400-1600
- Culture/People
- probably Diaguita (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Possible collector
- Tomás Guevara (Tomás Guevara Silva), Non-Indian, ca. 1863-1938
- Previous owner
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Museo Nacional, Santiago)
- 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
- Probably collected or excavated about 1915 by Chilean ethnologist and ethnohistorian Tomás Guevara Silva (ca. 1863-1938); formerly in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Santiago, Chile); acquired by MAI in 1930 through an exchange with the Museo National that was negotiated by Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) during the MAI's Thea Heye-Lothrop Expedition to Chile.
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- Place
- Between Temuco and Cajón; Cautín Province; Araucanía Region IX; Chile
- See related items
- Diaguita (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/7543
- Barcode
- 177543.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel
- Media/Materials
- Pottery, paint
- Techniques
- Coiled/hand built, modeled, painted
- Dimensions
- 15 x 15 x 13.5 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_190132