Metate Fragments
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Jun 1985
label: Collection Date
content: 1949
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Matthew W. Stirling
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: LONG SECTION OF CARVED STONE WITH SQUARE CROSS-SECTION, BROKEN IN TWO. THREE FIGURES ARE BROKEN OFF FROM ONE SIDE OF THE LONG PIECES. ALTHOUGH NO IDENTIFICATION SURVIVED WITH THESE FRAGMENTS, THEY WERE STORED WITH SOME OTHER FRAGMENTS FROM TRUNK 13, AND THE CONTENTS LISTING FOR THIS TRUNK INCLUDES REFERENCE TO A METATE. THESE FRAGMENTS MAY BE FROM THE ORNAMENTAL "FLYING PANEL" OF A METATE AS ILLUSTRATED IN LOTHROP, 1950, MEMOIRS OF THE PEABODY MUSEUM.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Las Palmas, Veraguas Province, Panama, Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 364365
label: USNM Number
content: A552393-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Metate
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Height - Object
content: 24 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: 11 cm