Bead/beads (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
- (unknown first name) Rosenkranz, Non-Indian
- Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Ethnologisches Museum/Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin)
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the "Rosenkranz collection" (possibly Otto Rosenkranz, 1846-1938, a German consul living in Merida); acquired by the Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Berlin, Germany) at an unknown date; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the Ethnological Museum of Berlin in 1913.
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- Place
- Mérida; Mérida Municipality, Influencia Metropolitana Region; Yucatán State; Mexico
- See related items
- Maya (archaeological culture)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 3/3778
- Barcode
- 033778.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Shell/shells
- Techniques
- Carved, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_36189