Accession No
1957.152 A
Description
Zoomorphic adorno, possibly depicting a frog. Face like shape, made up of pierced circular shapes on either side of a long horizontal groove; from this shape extends a semi-circular shape decorated with a series of short grooves fanning out from the 'face' of the adorno. Red fabric with grey core, fine sandy temper.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; West Indies; Trinidad and Tobago; Tobago; Mount Irvine Coombe
Period
Pre-Columbian/Pre-Hispanic Saladoid
Source
Bushnell, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1957.152 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) A.1. 18-22" and 18'26" '
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten notes loose in cardboard box read: 'This called Saladoid' and: 'This called transitional or post Saladoid. Both looked at + drawn'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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)
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6. Excavated by Geoffrey Bushnell during his 1955 expedition to Tobago, funded by the Crowther-Beynon Fund and Louis C.G. Clarke.
Event Date 1955
Author: Josie Howl
Context (References)
Harris, M.H.G. (1988). ‘The Ceramics of Tobago and Barbados: A Report on Studies In Progress.’ In Saunders, N.J. and de Montmollin, O. (eds.), Recent Studies in Pre-Columbian Archaeology. BAR International Series 421. Oxford: British Archaeological Report. pp. 245-273
Event Date 1988
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
Description (Physical description)
Adorno.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Zoomorphic adorno, possibly depicting a frog. Face like shape, made up of pierced circular shapes on either side of a long horizontal groove; from this shape extends a semi-circular shape decorated with a series of short grooves fanning out from the 'face' of the adorno. Red fabric with grey core, fine sandy temper.
Event Date 31/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
FM:270582
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