Inlay/mosaic pieces (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 1000 BC–AD 1550 (Middle Formative to Post-Classic period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Maya (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Ralph C. Altman, Non-Indian, 1909-1967
- Seller
- Ralph C. Altman, Non-Indian, 1909-1967
- Presenter/funding source
- Lou R. Crandall, Non-Indian, 1893-1978
- Marguerite Hill Crandall (Mrs. Lou R. Crandall), Non-Indian, 1896-1988
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI in 1956 from Ralph C. Altman (1909-1967, a primitive art dealer and later director of the Fowler Museum at the University of California at Los Angeles) using funds donated by Lou R. Crandall (1893-1978) and his wife Marguerite Hill Crandall (1896-1988).
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- Place
- Palenque; Palenque Municipality, Selva Region; Chiapas State; Mexico
- See related items
- Maya (archaeological culture)
- Materials: Prepared
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 22/4956
- Barcode
- 224956.000
- Object Type
- Materials: Prepared
- Object Name
- Inlay/mosaic pieces (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Shell/shells
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled, inlaid
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_239820