Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Christopher Wren (1853-1922, of the Wyoming Valley County Historical Society in Pennsylvania); donated to MAI by Christopher Wren in 1916, probably through staff associated with MAI's Susquehanna River Expedition.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Late Archaic or Early Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Christopher Wren, Non-Indian, 1853-1922
- Donor
- Christopher Wren, Non-Indian, 1853-1922
- MAI agent
- Susquehanna River Expedition (1916)
- Date created
- 3000–200 BC (Late Archaic to Early Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment
- Media/Materials
- Steatite/soapstone
- Techniques
- Ground
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
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