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Whorl

29-40-301

From: Brazil | Brazilian Amazonas | Lago Grande | Cumaruara

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 29-40-301
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 29-40-93 - Original Number | CG2017-7-1558 - Found in Collection Number

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