Bribrí (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles Blake.

This article describes the five stone "celts" that were submitted to Charles Blake in 1860 from the collections of antiquarian objects from Chiriqui. These objects were obtained from the graves in the area. These "celts' exhibit what the author calls a "well-known" scalpriform sharpening. Four of the celts are composed of "porphyritic" stone and the fifth celt is made of "indurated" clay.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R White.

This 1884 article by White refers to a strip of country about 600 miles in length and 250 miles in width on the west of the pacific ocean. The author describes his interpretation of the cultures and provides regional/locational differences. He also describes past and present burial rituals and techniques.

DOCUMENT Full-Text George MacCurdy.

This brief 1913 article argues that the "...faunal environment of a given region is apt to be reflected in its primitive art, especially when the art is primarily of local origin." The region of interest is Chiriqui Panama. The author, George MacCurdy, describes the animal forms of the ceramic art found in the region to illustrate his argument.

DOCUMENT Full-Text A. De Zeltner.

This article is in Spanish and describes the tombs in Chiriqui, Panama

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This August 12, 1989 newspaper article covers the Chiriqui Gold Fields and the intense excitement that created a rush of gold hunters to Panama. It also covers news from Puru, South America, and Chilli.

DOCUMENT Full-Text King Merritt.

Describes an 1858 Discovery by two Spanish creole farmers in Chirique of a cash of golden artifacts and eventually a graveyard. The two excavated the artifacts without being discovered until May of 1859. After they were discovered thousands of people looted the graveyard located in Huscal (25 miles from the current city of David). Thousands of pounds of gold were reportedly taken from the gravesite. This document also contains bulletins from the subsequent meetings.

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This November 12, 1859 newspaper clipping briefly describes the journey and good moral on board. The are also come brief comments about the nice climate of Panama.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry Wassén.

This 1949 article by Wassen describes the authors expedition to Panama and Columbia in 1947 on behalf of the Gothenburg Ethnographic Museum. He carried out a small archaeological investigation in Boquete Chiriqui, manly of surface collections found at the then Elliot recreation resort.

DOCUMENT Full-Text George MacCurdy.

Chirqui Antiquities: This Volume includes an excellent early description of the artifacts (as well as the classification and 1911 assigned date [this may have changed in current understandings due to developments in dating techniques]). The book also has an extremely large collection of pictures, maps, a detailed information of the figures and artifacts excavated until 1911 in this this region. There is also an introduction to the region that includes a history of both culture and excavation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Holmberg.

This document contains a table that lists the direction, angle, length, thickness, width (both horizontal and vertical from the middle and at each end). This is NOT published, but is part of the authors collection from her research.

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This newspaper clipping from December 3, 1905 briefly describes a discovery of a collection of Chiriqui artifacts found at the Peabody Museum.