Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Date:
1923
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Credit: Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plored has for the first time been made known. One of the immediate results of these studies is the report on The Antiquities of Manabi, Ecuador, issued in two quarto volumes in 1907 and 1910. The artifacts from Ecuador, and later from Colombia, consist chiefly of earthenware vessels, some of them large burial urns, stone objects (including many massive carved seats), and ornaments of gold and platinum. Soon after the South American research was initiated, an archeological survey of the West Indies was commenced, in 1907, the Reverend Thomas Huckerby under- taking that pertaining to St Vincent, subse- quently extending the reconnaissance to Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, Carriacou, Cannouan, and many smaller islands of the Lesser Antilles, and of the Windward Islands, the collections illustrating the cul- ture of the early West Indians being very numerous and comprehensive. The work initiated by Mr Huckerby was extended in 1912 by the late Theodoor de Booy, who in that year became attached to the staff of what had become popularly West Indies
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