Bead/beads fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- 4000 BC–1850 (Middle Holocene to Post-contact period)
- Culture/People
- possibly Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Southern California: Early Period, Middle Period and Chumash (archaeological)
- Previous owner
- Louis G. Dreyfus, Sr. (Louis Goethe Dreyfus), Non-Indian, 1862-1939
- Seller
- Louis G. Dreyfus, Sr. (Louis Goethe Dreyfus), Non-Indian, 1862-1939
- Presenter/funding source
- James Bishop Ford (James B. Ford), Non-Indian, 1844-1928
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Louis G. Dreyfus, Sr. (1862-1939, a Santa Barbara, California, real estate agent and investor); purchased by MAI from Louis Dreyfus in 1917 using funds donated by MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Place
- Santa Barbara County; California; USA
- See related items
- Multiple archaeological cultures
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 6/4033
- Barcode
- 064033.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads fragment (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_69159