Accession No

Z 37342


Description

Zoomorphic adorno, with mouth and possibly eye features, top of 'head' or possibly neck pinched in on both sides creating flat shape, two pieces of clay forming cylindrical legs. Fabric brown 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

Z 37342


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) A.1.18-26". Sherds'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl


Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card for Z 37329 in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘Z.37329 - Z.37342 were together in a box obviously selected out by GHSB'
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘Eroded adorno in form of animal's head and front legs’.
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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 (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6 (i) A.1. 18-26". 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)
Zoomorphic adorno.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
Zoomorphic adorno, with mouth and possibly eye features, top of 'head' or possibly neck pinched in on both sides creating flat shape, two pieces of clay forming cylindrical legs. Fabric brown with sandy temper.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


FM:270607

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