Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Henry Booth (1849-1929, a mining engineer in Poughkeepsie, New York); donated by him in 1908 to the American Museum of Natural History; acquired by MAI in 1920 through an exchange with the American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Henry Booth, Non-Indian, 1849-1929
- American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), 1869-
- Date created
- 1000 BC–AD 1600 (Early to Late Woodland period)
- Object Name
- Gorget
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, notched, drilled
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
