Jar (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 800-1500
- Culture/People
- probably Central Caribbean/Costa Rican Atlantic Watershed (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Ernest O. Schernikow (Ernst August W. Schernikow), Non-Indian, 1860-1933
- American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), 1869-
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Ernest O. Schernikow (1860-1933, a mineralogist and businessman with interests in Central America); donated by Ernest Schernikow to the American Museum of Natural History in 1902; acquired by George Heye in 1905 through an exchange with the American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York).
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- Place
- Siquirres; Siquirres Cantón; Limón Province; Costa Rica
- See related items
- Central Caribbean/Costa Rican Atlantic Watershed (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 2713
- Barcode
- 002713.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Jar (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Painted
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_2814