Accession No

1957.144 D


Description

Three sherds, including one rim, with polychrome painted decoration. Rim slightly everted, flanged, top of rim painted red, interior surface black, exterior surface with traces of red and white paint. One body sherd with carination, with red paint. One body sherd with white and red paint. Brown fabrics with 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

1957.144 D


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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 (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)
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 (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 (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)
3 sherds with red and white paint.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
Three sherds, including one rim, with polychrome painted decoration. Rim slightly everted, flanged, top of rim painted red, interior surface black, exterior surface with traces of red and white paint. One body sherd with carination, with red paint. One body sherd with white and red paint. Brown fabrics with sandy temper.
Event Date 31/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


FM:270583

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