Accession No

1957.144 A


Description

16 sherds with red paint. One externally thickened, flat-topped rim sherd. One sherd of biconical body with incised horizontal lug handle or zoomorphic adorno. Rest are body sherds with polychrome white-on-red or red-on-white painted decoration of geometric designs. Reddish buff fabric, sandy temper.


Place

Americas; Caribbean; 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 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 (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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Danlei Zhou


Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (ii) A-C.1 15-21". Sherds, shell'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl


Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(ii) A-C1, 15-21". 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: Danlei Zhou


Description (Physical description)
10 sherds with red and white paint.
Event Date 13/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
16 sherds with red paint. One externally thickened, flat-topped rim sherd. One sherd of biconical body with incised horizontal lug handle or zoomorphic adorno. Rest are body sherds with polychrome white-on-red or red-on-white painted decoration of geometric designs. Reddish buff fabric, sandy temper.
Event Date 22/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou


FM:271265

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