Pestle
- Date created
- AD 800-1500
- Culture/People
- possibly Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Collector
- William A. Gowrie, Jr. (William Arthur Gowrie), Non-Indian, b. 1863
- Previous owner
- William A. Gowrie, Jr. (William Arthur Gowrie), Non-Indian, b. 1863
- Donor
- William A. Gowrie, Jr. (William Arthur Gowrie), Non-Indian, b. 1863
- MAI agent
- Theodoor de Booy (Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de Booy), Non-Indian, 1882-1919
- Collection History
- Collected by William A. Gowrie, Jr. (b. 1863, an American engineer working at the Cristóbal Colón sugar mill) at an unknown date; donated to MAI by William Gowrie through MAI staff member Theodoor de Booy (1882-1919) during MAI-sponsored fieldwork in 1917.
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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)
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 7/2013
- Barcode
- 072013.000
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Object Name
- Pestle
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Pecked, ground
- Record ID
- NMAI_77656