Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; probably purchased by Edwin F. Coffin (1883-1946, MAI staff member) from an unknown source in 1915 during a collecting trip sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- MAI agent
- Edwin Francis Coffin (E. F. Coffin), Non-Indian, 1883-1946
- Date created
- 1000 BC–AD 1600 (Early to Late Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Shell
- Media/Materials
- Oyster shell/shells
- Techniques
- Unmodified
- Object Type
- Materials: Waste
