Snuff spoon (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1000–1450 (San Pedro III period)
- Culture/People
- probably San Pedro de Atacama Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Museo Nacional, Santiago)
- Expedition
- Mrs. Thea Heye Chile Expedition (1929-1930) (Mrs. Thea Heye - Lothrop Expedition)
- Expedition leader
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
- Expedition sponsor
- Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (Santiago, Chile); acquired by MAI in 1930 through an exchange with the Museo National that was negotiated by Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member) during the MAI's Thea Heye-Lothrop Expedition to Chile.
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- Place
- Chíuchíu (Chíu Chíu); El Loa Province; Antofagasta Region II; Chile
- See related items
- San Pedro de Atacama Tradition (archaeological culture)
- Pipes and Smoking
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 17/7953
- Barcode
- 177953.000
- Object Type
- Pipes and Smoking
- Object Name
- Snuff spoon (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone
- Techniques
- Carved
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_190440