Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Excavator
- George A. Dorsey (George Amos Dorsey), Non-Indian, 1868-1931
- Previous owner
- Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago Natural History Museum), 1893-
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1892 by anthropologist George A. Dorsey (1868-1931, curator of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History) during investigations in South America for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair); transferred to the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) when it was founded in 1894; acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Field Museum in 1918.
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- Place
- Isla de La Plata; Montecristi Canton; Manabí Province; Ecuador
- Island Name
- Isla de La Plata
- See related items
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 8/7017
- Barcode
- 087017.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Carved, ground, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_93544