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Object Number
10-61-00/2.10
Display Title
Wall of sand pit
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on photograph (verso): "No 3 Aug. 31st 1910. / Exploration of the Delaware Valley / under direction of Prof. F. W. Putnam for / Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology / Cambridge Mass. by Ernest Volk. / View looking west, showing the same exposure as / No 1 Y No 2 of this date. The stone in the view is a boulder / found near the surface, some water so over and 1 1/2 f. long / 9 inch broad and six inch thick, whitish quartzite. / The exposure in the distance is the place where 4 feet of / yellow loam was found under six inch of black soil / and where the natural and artificial pits were located. / Behnd which appears R.R. and River View Cemetery in the / distance."
Department
Photographic
Date
August 31, 1910
Artist
Ernest W. Volk
Culture
- Pre-Columbian Eastern North American styles
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
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United States
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New Jersey
Additional Geographic Terms
Delaware Valley
Materials
Print, black and white
Dimensions
Overall: 12.7 × 17.78 cm (5 × 7 in.)
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Peabody Museum Expedition, F. W. Putnam, Director, 1910
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