Santo Domingo kitchen-midden and burial mound / by Theodoor de Booy.

  • Theodoor de Booy
Date:
1919
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Santo Domingo kitchen-midden and burial mound / by Theodoor de Booy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANTO DOMINGO a large shellheap on the Cristédbal Colén sugar plantation situated on Higuamo river (also known as Macoris river), about three miles above the coast town of San Pedro de Macoris. He was fortunate, therefore, in meeting Mr E. Despaigne, administrator of the Cristébal Colén es- tate, and in receiving from this gentleman an invitation.to visit the property and to conduct the necessary excavations. Thanks are due to Mrs De Mola and Miss Narifio, of Paris, owners of the estate, to Mr Despaigne, Mr W. Gowrie, assistant administrator, and Mr W. Gow- rie jr., civil engineer of Cristébal Coldén, for facilities accorded in the work and for their whole-hearted hospitality. In ad- dition, a large number of specimens were presented to the writer for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Founda- tion, by Mr Despaigne and by various other officials of the estate. By reason of the cordiality of those mentioned the writer regards his sojourn on Cristébal Colén as one of his most pleasant and profitable experiences in the Antilles.
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