Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown, but possibly collected between 1884 and 1898 by Lady Edith Blake (1845-1926, amateur ethnologist, archaeologist, and artist) and her husband Sir Henry Arthur Blake (1840-1918, governor of the Bahamas from 1884 to 1887 and governor of Jamaica from 1889 to 1898); purchased from the Blakes by MAI in 1916 using funds donated by MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Ostionoid Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Possible collector
- Lady Edith Blake (Edith Bernal-Osborne Blake), Non-Indian, 1845-1926
- Sir Henry A. Blake, Non-Indian, 1840-1918
- Previous owner
- Lady Edith Blake (Edith Bernal-Osborne Blake), Non-Indian, 1845-1926
- Sir Henry A. Blake, Non-Indian, 1840-1918
- Seller
- Lady Edith Blake (Edith Bernal-Osborne Blake), Non-Indian, 1845-1926
- Sir Henry A. Blake, Non-Indian, 1840-1918
- Date created
- AD 700-1500
- Object Name
- Celt
- Media/Materials
- Shell/shells
- Techniques
- Ground
- Object Type
- Woodworking tools
