Vessel fragment/Potsherd
Object Details
- Culture/People
- possibly Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Excavator
- Maynard Allen Cramer, Non-Indian, 1892-1958
- Previous owner
- Maynard Allen Cramer, Non-Indian, 1892-1958
- Wellington M. Cramer, Sr., Non-Indian, 1870-1955
- Ida Dallas Cramer (Mrs. Wellington M. Cramer, Sr.), Non-Indian, 1866-1960
- Wellington M. Cramer, Jr., Non-Indian, 1895-1969
- Marjorie E. Cramer (Mrs. Wellington M. Cramer Jr.), Non-Indian, 1910-1985
- Donor
- Marjorie E. Cramer (Mrs. Wellington M. Cramer Jr.), Non-Indian, 1910-1985
- Collection History
- Excavated by Maynard Allen Cramer (1892-1958, a forester and amateur archaeologist) between 1920 and 1940; maintained in the collection of his parents Wellington M. Cramer, Sr. (1870-1955) and Ida Dallas Cramer (1866-1960); inherited by Maynard Cramer’s brother Wellington M. Cramer, Jr. (1895-1969) and his wife Marjorie E. Cramer (1910-1985); lent to MAI by Marjorie Cramer in 1973; donated to MAI by Marjorie Cramer in 1976.
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- Date created
- 1000 BC–AD 1600 (Early to Late Woodland period)
- Catalog Number
- 23/3699
- Barcode
- 233699.000
- Object Type
- Containers and Vessels
- Object Name
- Vessel fragment/Potsherd
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Modeled, impressed, incised
- Place
- Refuse; Mosquito Point, Seneca River; Conquest Township; Cayuga County; New York; USA
- See related items
- Woodland Tradition (archaeological culture)
- Containers and Vessels
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_249054
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6c050460b-b0ff-4d14-aa17-d0c24cfe99f6
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