The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 9 - 1910 -1912 Letters Tiffany & Co. Dated to Walters Museum MD (1 of 4)

Creator(s): Karen Holmberg

Year: 1910

Summary

Letter from Tiffany & Co. Dated Dec. 29th 1910. From WJF of Tiffany & Co. Letter was to Henry Walters, ESQ. The letter details what price Tiffany & Co. would sell "gold ornaments ... that were purchased from Indians that had been dug up from ancient graveyards" that were discovered in 1910. The graveyards were located in Panama and the boundary line of Costa Lion.

Cite this Record

The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 9 - 1910 -1912 Letters Tiffany & Co. Dated to Walters Museum MD (1 of 4). Karen Holmberg. 1910. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland ( tDAR id: 365548) ; doi:10.6067/XCV86Q1VF2


Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Bribrí • Chibchan • Chiriquí • columbian • Concepción Phase • pre-columbian • Tropical Forest Archaic

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Ground Stone • Human Remains • Macrobotanical • Metal • Mineral • Shell • Wood

Site Name
Barú • Bugaba • Bugavita • highland Chiriquí

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Burial Pit • Cemetery • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Isolated Burial • Non-Domestic Structures • Rock Art • Settlements • Tomb • Water-Related

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Survey • Collections Research • Data Recovery / Excavation • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Research Design / Data Recovery Plan • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Ethnoarchaelogical • Ethnography • Ethnohistorical • Historical

Geographic Keywords
Barú region • Barú volcano • Bay of Chiriquí • Boquete • Boruca • Castilla de Oro • Chiriquí • Chiriquí Province • City of David • City of Gold • Isthmus of Panamá • Mesoamerica • New World • Pacific Ocean • Panama • Panamá City • Santiago de Veraguas • Talamanca Cordillera • Terraba • Tierra Firma

Temporal Keywords
1500's • 16th Century • 1700's • 18th Century • 19th Century • Aguas Buenas Period • Bugaba Period • Chiriquí Phases • Colonial Period • columbian • Concepción Phase • Eighteenth century • Late Bugaba Phase • New World • Nineteenth Century • pre-Columbian • sixteenth century • Tropical Forest Archaic

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -4600 to 1500

Radiocarbon Date: 680 to 600

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.62; min lat: 8.124 ; max long: -81.867; max lat: 8.654 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Karen Holmberg

Repository(s): Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

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