Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by Dr. Samuel Austin Davis (1857-1924, a surgeon who worked for the Guayaquil and Quito Railway Company in the early 1900s); purchased from Dr. Austin during the Second Ecuador Expedition, led by Marshall H. Saville (1867-1935, MAI staff member) and funded 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
- Shuar/Achuar
- Collector
- Dr. Samuel Austin Davis (S. A. Davis), Non-Indian, 1857-1924
- Previous owner
- Dr. Samuel Austin Davis (S. A. Davis), Non-Indian, 1857-1924
- Seller
- Dr. Samuel Austin Davis (S. A. Davis), Non-Indian, 1857-1924
- Expedition
- Second Ecuador Expedition (1907)
- 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
- "Shrunken" animal head
- Media/Materials
- Sloth head
- Techniques
- Dried
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
