Vessel lid/cover (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 300–900 (Classic period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Zapotec or Mixteca (Mixtec) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Seller
- Benjamin T. Gilbert (Benjamin Thorne Gilbert/B. T. Gilbert), Non-Indian, 1872-1961
- Previous owner
- Benjamin T. Gilbert (Benjamin Thorne Gilbert/B. T. Gilbert), Non-Indian, 1872-1961
- Collector
- Benjamin T. Gilbert (Benjamin Thorne Gilbert/B. T. Gilbert), Non-Indian, 1872-1961
- Collection History
- Collected or excavated by Benjamin Thorne Gilbert (1872-1961, a Utica, New York, investment banker and sculptor with interests in archaeology) while travelling in Mexico in 1905; purchased by George Heye from Benjamin Gilbert in 1905.
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- Place
- Oaxaca State; Mexico
- See related items
- Zapotec (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 3885
- Barcode
- 003885.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel lid/cover (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Mold-made
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_3694