FMNH 102896.3

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    Transcriber: Julia W. Kennedy : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | 103 | Country British West Indies | Locality Trinidad (Erin Bay) | People Insular Arawak, Arawakan Stock | Name Three elongated handles of solid pottery from large vessels. In the shape of heads of animals with elongated snots, mouths posterior and large ears. Two have plates or forelocks on top of head. Possibly tapirs. | Collection Exchange from the Museum of the American Indian, 1919. Thomas Huckerby, Collector. | Notes | Width | Length | Height | Price [LEFT MARGIN] A | 102896 1-3 | ENT | Acc. 1303
Catalog Number: 102896.3
Description: vessel fragment (handle)
Materials: clay (ceramic)
Cultural Attribution: Arawak
Locality: North America, West Indies; Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, Trinidad And Tobago, Trinidad, Erin Bay
Accession Number: [1303] Museum of the American Indian : Museum of the American Indian (Exchange)
Accession Year:
Country: Trinidad And Tobago
Province/State: Trinidad
District/County: Erin Bay
Collector/Source: Museum of the American Indian
EMu IRN: 3659120
GUID: 92c64e30-0496-4d0d-892d-3f63177392ff

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