The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 11 - 1910 -1912 Letters Tiffany & Co. Dated to Walters Museum MD (3 of 4)

Creator(s): Karen Holmberg

Year: 1911

Summary

Correspondence between the Tiffany & Co. store and collector Henry Walters in 1911 and 1912; provided by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. This letter is dated December 21st, 1911 that states from Tiffany Co. (HHW/GFK) that "herewith a list of the gold ornaments in the collection purchased by you, and which were sent to your Museum."

Cite this Record

The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 11 - 1910 -1912 Letters Tiffany & Co. Dated to Walters Museum MD (3 of 4). Karen Holmberg. 1911. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland ( tDAR id: 365550) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8MS3QVM


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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