Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 200–1600 (Nehuange to Tairona period)
- Culture/People
- probably Tairona (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- J. Alden Mason (John Alden Mason), Non-Indian, 1885-1967
- Previous owner
- Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago Natural History Museum), 1893-
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1922 or 1923 by archaeologist John Alden Mason (1885-1967), then on the staff of the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) and a member of the Marshall Field Archaeological Expedition to Colombia; acquired by MAI in 1925 through an exchange with the Field Museum.
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- Place
- Santa Marta; Santa Marta Municipality; Magdalena Department; Colombia
- See related items
- Tairona (archaeological culture)
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 13/7714
- Barcode
- 137714.000
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
- Object Name
- Bead/beads (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Drilled
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_147697