Engraved Gorget

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13th-14th century

Engraved shell disk

Overall: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Wesleyan University Museum, Middletown, Connecticut

55.34.13316

Geography

Place Found: Tennessee River, United States, North America

Object Name

Artifact

Research Area

Archaeology

Funerary Objects

Not on view

Provenance

Wesleyan University Museum, Middletown, Connecticut; by exchange (#102) to present collection, 1955.

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