Axe head fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 200–1600 (Nehuange to Tairona period)
- Culture/People
- probably Tairona (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Expedition sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (The University Museum/Penn Museum)
- Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation (MAI-HF), 1916-1989
- Expedition leader
- Gregory Mason, Non-Indian, 1889-1968
- Collection History
- Excavated or purchased from local residents in 1931 by journalist and anthropologist Gregory Mason (1889-1968) during fieldwork sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and MAI.
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- Place
- Various localities; Magdalena Department; Colombia
- See related items
- Tairona (archaeological culture)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 18/1816
- Barcode
- 181816.001
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Axe head fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_194490