Taino coa, stone collar
Afro-Indigenous Ancestry, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Toa Baja

April 8, 1904: Jessie Walter Fewkes in Puerto Rico

After the Spanish-American War, the rush was on to obtain prehistoric objects from the Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Anthopologist Jessie Walter Fewkes assembled a large collection of stone objects. What did he do with them?