Context (Related Documents)
Found with slip of paper reading 'TOBAGO. TURTLE - BAY. FUNDE ANS DER SEIDLUNG AM STRAND' (translation: Finds from the settlement at the beach).
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Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
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Author: Clare McKenna

Context (References)
Bushnell, G.H.S. (n.d.). Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago. MAA Archive (FR4/1/4 text, FR4/1/2 plates)
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Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'A hollow-backed adorno, slipped ware. Saladoid.'
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Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. TURTLE BAY + unprovenanced'.
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Author: Josie Howl

Context (Analysis)
Although Turtle Bay is not listed in Geoffrey Bushnell's unpublished report of his 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago (see archive FR4/1/4 for text, FR4/1/2 for plates), Arie Boomert lists the site of 'Turtle Beach 2' [TOB-25] in his inventory of sites on Tobago as being discovered by Bushnell in 1955 (2000. Trinidad, Tobago and the Lower Orinoco Interaction Sphere: An Archaeological/Ethnohistorical Study. Alkmaar: Cairi Publications. p. 509). It may be that this site is actually from Turtle Beach and it was collected and donated by Bushnell; until this can be confirmed, he has been tentatively added as Source and Turtle Beach tentatively added to the Place field.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Anthropozoomorphic head adorno, possibly of a turtle. Domed face with hollow back; its facial features consist of raised semi-spherical eyes in each upper corner with incised slits; a large raised semi-spherical mouth with incised slit for mouth; and a nubbin with slit protruding from top of head.
Event Date 30/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna