Worked stone (Image withheld, pending review)
name: label: Previous owner
content: Manuel B. Zavaleta, Non-Indian, 1862-1925
label: Previous seller
content: Manuel B. Zavaleta, Non-Indian, 1862-1925
label: Previous owner
content: Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago Natural History Museum), 1893-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; part of a collection assembled by Manuel B. Zavaleta (1862-1925, an Argentine police chief and public official) of material excavated and looted from archaeological sites in Argentina in the 1880s and 1890s; exhibited as part of Manuel Zavaleta's collection at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904; purchased by the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) from Manuel Zavaleta in 1904 or 1905; acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Field Museum in 1918.
label: Contact Us
content: Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement
place: label: Place
content: Tafí del Valle Department; Tucumán Province; Argentina
setName: label: See related items
content: Materials: Waste
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 8/7140
label: Barcode
content: 087140.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Materials: Waste
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Worked stone (Image withheld, pending review)
label: Media/Materials
content: Steatite/soapstone
label: Techniques
content: Ground, carved