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Sherd

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Object Number:51-48-9
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Arawak
Igneri
Provenience: Ponce
Canas
Puerto Rico
West Indies
Culture Area: Caribbean
Section:American
Materials:Clay
Credit Line:Gift of Ricardo E. Alegria, Director Museo de Historia y Arte Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1951
Other Number:A - Field No SF

Description

Probably a fragment of the neck of a vessel like 51-48-1 stc, but may possibly be from the side of a bowl with interior decoration, the decoration being on the concave surface. Red-brown ware with soft surface; the convex surface is black; the concave surface white-on-brown negative paint in straight and curved lines forming blocks.

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