Description (Labels & Markings)
'Label glued to the back of the object: 'Found with burials urns etc. Island of Marajo Delta of the Amazon 1880. Found by the donor Neville Goodman, M.A. (See Cambs. Antiq. Comm. 1881 Vol.IV p.411-422).'
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1890.57 [A-K]: 'Two highly ornamented burial urns, one large and plain and portions of others. Also a pottery head and a pubic shield.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Excavated by Dr Neville Goodman in 1880.
Event Date 1880
Author: maa

Context (References)
Goodman, N. (1881). 'On some Burial Urns found near the mouth of the Amazon River'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Vol 4(4), pp. 411-422. Fig. 5
Event Date 1881
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1890.57 [A-K]: 'Two high ornamented burial urns, one large plain urn, and portions of others.'
Event Date 1890
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Ceramic tanga; pubic shield, incomplete; reconstructed from smaller sherds. Bichrome; burnished; thin, curved-shaped and finishing with rounded rims, to be worn in similar fashion to female underwear. Three small drilled lashing holes on each corner, likely to attach the tanga to another garment. Decorated at the front in white slip with intricate geometric motifs and lines in dark brown. White slip on the back.
Event Date 5/12/2024
Author: maa