Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 700–1550 (Late Classic to Post-Classic period)
- Culture/People
- probably Maya (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Collector
- Edward Herbert Thompson, Non-Indian, 1857-1935
- Previous owner
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
- Expedition sponsor
- Stephen Salisbury, III, Non-Indian, 1835-1905
- Charles Pickering Bowditch, Non-Indian, 1842-1921
- Collection History
- Dredged from the Cenote between 1904 and 1910 by archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson (1857-1935) during fieldwork sponsored by philanthropist Stephen Salisbury III (1835-1905) and archaeologist Charles Pickering Bowditch (1842-1921) for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts); part of the Peabody Museum collections until 1950 when it was acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Peabody Museum.
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- Place
- Sacred Cenote (Cenote of Sacrifice), Chichén Itzá; Tinúm Municipality, Oriente Region; Yucatán State; Mexico
- See related items
- Maya (archaeological culture)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 21/7155
- Barcode
- 217155.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Jade
- Techniques
- Carved, ground, drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_231773