Yoke fragment (ball-game accessory)
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- probably Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Harold E. Grathwohl, Non-Indian, 1895-1958
- Seller
- Harold E. Grathwohl, Non-Indian, 1895-1958
- Object Name
- Yoke fragment (ball-game accessory)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Pecked, carved, ground
- Object Type
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Place
- Puerto Rico
- Archipelago
- Greater Antilles
- Island Name
- Puerto Rico
- Geographical Areas
- Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
- Date created
- AD 1200-1500
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; collected or purchased from local residents by Harold E. Grathwohl (1895-1958, a Long Island, New York, poultry farmer who also worked for the US Department of Agriculture and often travelled to Puerto Rico); purchased by MAI from Harold Grathwohl in 1933.
- Catalog Number
- 18/4988
- Barcode
- 184988.000
- See related items
- Chican Ostionoid (Chicoid) (archaeological culture)
- Sculpture/Carving/Figures
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
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