Female figure
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- possibly South Appalachian Mississippian: Etowah (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Colonel Lewis Tumlin, Non-Indian, 1809-1875
- Georgia Geological Survey (Geological Department, State of Georgia)
- Seller agent
- Dr. Samuel Worthington McCallie (S. W. McCallie), Non-Indian, 1856-1933
- Object Name
- Female figure
- Media/Materials
- Stone, paint
- Techniques
- Carved, painted
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Place
- Etowah Mounds (Tumlin Mounds); Cartersville; Bartow County; Georgia; USA
- Date created
- AD 1250-1375 (Middle Mississippian period)
- Collection History
- Plowed up near the base of the large mound at Etowah, which was then owned by Colonel Lewis Tumlin (1809-1875); in his family's possession at least until 1859; subsequently in the collection of the Georgia Geological Survey; purchased by MAI in 1925 from the Georgia Geological Survey through Georgia state geologist Dr. Samuel Worthington McCallie (1856-1933).
- Catalog Number
- 14/1455
- Barcode
- 141455.000
- See related items
- South Appalachian Mississippian: Etowah (archaeological culture)
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement