Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (No image available)
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- Date created
- AD 800-1500
- Culture/People
- probably Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Theodoor de Booy (Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy), Non-Indian, 1882-1919
- MAI agent
- Theodoor de Booy (Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy), Non-Indian, 1882-1919
- Collection History
- Excavated or purchased from local residents in 1916 by Theodoor de Booy (1882-1919, an MAI staff member) during MAI-sponsored fieldwork.
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- Place
- Ingenio Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus sugar mill); San Pedro de Macorís; San Pedro de Macorís Province; Dominican Republic
- Archipelago
- Greater Antilles
- Island Name
- Hispaniola
- Geographical Areas
- Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
- See related items
- Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 5/8474
- Barcode
- 058474.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment/potsherd with effigy/adorno (No image available)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Coiled/hand built, modeled, incised, punctate, appliquéd
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_63232