Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from Charles Melvin Heffner (1885-1978, a Reading, Pennsylvania, antiques dealer) in 1950.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Susquehannock (archaeological) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Charles M. Heffner (Charles Melvin Heffner/C. M. Heffner), Non-Indian, 1885-1978
- Seller
- Charles M. Heffner (Charles Melvin Heffner/C. M. Heffner), Non-Indian, 1885-1978
- Date created
- AD 1650–1680
- Object Name
- Jar (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Impressed
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
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