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| Object Number: | 40708 |
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Calusa |
| Provenience: | Florida Southwest Coast (Florida) Key Marco Collier County |
| Culture Area: | Southeast |
| Date Made: | 700-1560 AD |
| Early Date: | 700 |
| Late Date: | 1560 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Wood Pigment |
| Iconography: | Pelican Head |
| Length: | 10.7 cm |
| Width: | 6.1 cm |
| Thickness: | 6.7 cm |
| Credit Line: | William Pepper Florida Expedition, Frank H. Cushing; subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number: | 583 - Field No SF |
Description
Small highly finished graceful figure head of pelican with fragments of wing pieces. Found perfect. Painted with white, black, and buff gray pigments. (Cast and color sketches taken). Cast of same and wings complete.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014 - 01 Jan 2021) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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