Jar (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 900-1550 (Early to Late Mississippian period)
- Culture/People
- probably Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Lucius H. Cheney, Non-Indian, 1836-1876
- Previous owner
- Onondaga Historical Association (Onondaga Historical Society)
- Seller
- Onondaga Historical Association (Onondaga Historical Society)
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1876 by Lucius H. Cheney (1836-1876, a professor at Southeast Missouri State University, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri); probably acquired by the Onondaga Historical Association (Syracuse, New York) from members of his family who lived in Syracuse; purchased by MAI from the Onondaga Historical Association in 1959.
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- Place
- Morristown; Hamblen County; Tennessee; USA
- See related items
- Central/Middle Mississippian (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 22/8170
- Barcode
- 228170.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Jar (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Modeled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_243200