Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1906 during the First Ecuador Expedition, led by Marshall H. Saville (1867-1935, MAI staff member) and sponsored by George Gustav Heye and his mother, Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye (1845-1915).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Shuar/Achuar (attributed)
- Expedition
- First Ecuador Expedition (1906)
- Expedition leader
- Dr. Marshall H. Saville (Marshall Howard Saville/M.H. Saville/MHS), Non-Indian, 1867-1935
- Expedition sponsor
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- Marie A. Heye (Marie Antoinette Lawrence Heye), Non-Indian, 1845-1915
- Object Name
- Necklace
- Media/Materials
- Animal tooth/teeth, glass bead/beads, cordage
- Techniques
- Strung
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
