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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Native American; American Indian
Title:Sherds
Type:Container
Materials:Ceramic; earthenware
Place Made:North America; United States; Massachusetts
Accession Number:  MH SK 2006.2020.INV
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
 

This object is under review for NAGPRA-sensitivity.

Recent updates to NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) require consent from lineal descendants and/or affiliated Native American Tribes or Native Hawaiian Organizations before displaying or researching cultural items. We have removed the public image of this belonging until we can learn more about the wishes of affiliated Tribal officials or the descendants of those who made it.

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Description:
Thirteen earthenware pottery sherds, enclosed in a Cremo tobacco box.

Label Text:
SKINNER NOTE: Algonquin pot shards. Designs typical of pottery of Abenaki tribe around Northampton. Cooking pots, nice collection. The white flakes are oyster shell. Mrs. Jump. Dept of Archaeology at Phillips Academy - Andover, Mass. These pot shards were given to me by Mr. Haydr[ ] -B.H. Hubble.

Tags:
ancient; archaeology; Native American; indigenous people; pottery; vessels; containers

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