Earthen Pot
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1887
label: Collection Date
content: August 1884 ?
name: label: Collector
content: Antoine-Alfred Marché
label: Donor Name
content: Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Through Alfred Muroher [name is written as Marcher or Murcher on pot itself]. Calamians, Province Malasia, P.I., South point East side of the Isl., mouth of River Coron. Grave of Calasmires. Ancient. Light color, tied with split cane."
label: Notes
content: Per Patricia O. Afable, 5-7-2010, Alfred Muroher/Murcher/Marcher is probably Alfred Marché (full name Antoine-Alfred Marché). Also, the locality listed as Calamians/Calasmires on the catalogue card is the Calamianes or Calamian Islands. The list of objects in this accession sent by Ernest-Théodore Hamy and dated 15 December 1886 identifies this object in French in Oceania section as "1 marmite terre cuite, Calamianes." Marché visited the Calamianes Islands in June - October 1884, doing collecting of archaeological artifacts in August 1884 on Peñon de Coron Island (a.k.a Coron Island). Some of Marché's Philippine collection was deposited in the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme). In 1887, the Smithsonian received a collection from the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, including jar # A132459. Reference: Marché, Alfred, Carmen Ojeda, Jovita Ventura Castro, Pierre Revol, and W. A. Burke-Miailhe. 1970. Luzon and Palawan. Manila: The Filipiniana Book Guild: pp. 257 - 259.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Coron Island (not certain), Palawan Province / Calamianes (Calamian) Islands, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Calamian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018694
label: USNM Number
content: A132459-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot