Pottery Bird Figurine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Globular body; white slip with brown dots, brown lines for tail; red head; tail tip missing; dealer's sticker on bottom; Capt. C. W. Riggs, Arkansas. Loaned to Hillwood 12-15-82".
label: Notes
content: "Captain" C. W. (Chauncey Wales) Riggs (1857 - 1917) was an American artifact dealer and collector. He was involved in the unscientific excavation of Native American burial mounds in Eastern Arkansas in the 1880s. His collection was on display at the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago World's Fair) in Chicago in 1893 and subsequently acquired by the Field Museum. Much of the collection was subsequently dispersed to public and private collections, including approximately fifty pottery vessels exchanged with the British Museum in 1901. Bibliography: Brose, David S. 1980. "How Captain Riggs Hunts for Mound Builders' Relics: An Historical Investigation of Some Influences on C.B. Moore" in Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 22:145-152. Sources of the above information: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG223963 , and http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6352a8fe4-ef98-46e7-b0e3-1f4179fa19aa , retrieved 20 October 2022.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Acoma
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E419014A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure