Disc
Whorl
29-40-298
From: Brazil | Brazilian Amazonas | Lago Grande | Cumaruara
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-40-298 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Brazil | Brazilian Amazonas | Lago Grande | Cumaruara |
| Culture Area | Amazonia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Fragments of Spinning Top (?) Hard red pottery (most of them red all through but some dark grey flecked with red); probably clay mised with red ochre. Very Heavy. Parts of circular disks varying from about 1.24 to 2.25 in. diameter and from 1/8 to 1/2" in thickness. Most of them had a hole 1/4" or 3/8 in diameter in centre. Some are plain but the greater number have incised designs; some are groved around the rim. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Rev. John Mayer, 1929 |
| Other Number | 29-40-90 - Original Number | CG2017-7-1558 - Found in Collection Number |
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