Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of José Felix Seijo (1879-ca. 1950), a Puerto Rican coffee farmer, census taker, judge, and collector; purchased from Felix Seijo in 1912 by Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930, an anthropologist with the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology who worked in the Caribbean) while acting on behalf of George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed); including Archaic Age (Ortoiroid), Saladoid, and Ostionoid Traditions
- Seller
- Felix Seijo (José Felix Seijo), Non-Indian, 1879-ca. 1950
- Previous owner
- Felix Seijo (José Felix Seijo), Non-Indian, 1879-ca. 1950
- MAI agent
- Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (J. Walter Fewkes), Non-Indian, 1850-1930
- Date created
- 2500 BC-AD 1500
- Object Name
- Mortar
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Pecked, ground
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
