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| Object Number: | 40708 |
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| Current Location: | On Loan |
| Culture: | Calusa |
| Provenience: | United States of America Florida Southwest Coast (Florida) Key Marco Collier County |
| Culture Area: | Southeast Culture Area |
| Date Made: | 700-1560 CE |
| Early Date: | 700 |
| Late Date: | 1560 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Wood Pigment |
| Iconography: | Pelican Head |
| Height: | 10.7 cm |
| Width: | 6.1 cm |
| Depth: | 6.7 cm |
| Credit Line: | William Pepper Florida Expedition, Frank H. Cushing; subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number: | 583 - Field No SF EP-1897-1-8 - Associated Object Number |
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 (EP-1897-1-8) and wings complete.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Coe, Ralph T. 1977. Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art.. Kansas City. Nelson Gallery of Art. pg. 252 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 63/17C | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Dockstader, Frederick J. Indian Art in North America: Arts and Crafts.. Greenwich, Connecticut. New York Graphic Society. ed. Fourth Printing. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Fig 59 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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