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 (Related Documents)
A note found with two boxes of sherds (1890.57 [J and K]) in G.H.S. Bushnell's hand reads: 'Must be Goodman Collection from Marajo Island, Brazil. See proceedings of CAS 1884.'
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
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)
Description for 1890.57 J-K: 'Found, two boxes of sherds. One box with numerous heavy red ware sherds, possibly from one vessel. The other box contains sherds with raised decoration of various sorts, one of them (possibly a lug or part of a rim?) with two elliptical circles applied, one inside the other to give the impression of an eye and two perforations threaded with string on the upper edge.'
Event Date 7/10/2003
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sherds from the body of a large orange vessel. A total of twenty four sherds showing a thick wall, some retaining traces of a fine layer of orange slip on the exterior. Uneven surface on the interior.
Event Date 6/12/2024
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones