1937
Excavated at Perrault site, Grant County, NM [1]
by 1943 - 1944
Colonel Fain White King (1892-1972), Wickcliffe, KY [2]
1944 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Colonel Fain White King [3]
Notes:
[1] Documentation presumably provided by Colonel Fain White King states that 109:1944 was from "Location Perraults site. Excavated 5/2'37." A map given to the Museum by King indicates the site is located in Grant County, New Mexico [SLAM document files].
[2] The method of transfer is not known, but according to a letter dated December 16, 1943 from Colonel Fain White King to Thomas T. Hoopes, curator at the City Art Museum, King was preparing to “secure the only great collection of the famous rare Mimbres Valley pottery not in a museum." In a letter dated January 2, 1944 from King to Hoopes, King states he “secured the finest collection known of the Mimbres Valley prehistoric pottery...” [letters in SLAM document files].
[3] An invoice dated May 12, 1944 from Colonel Fain White King to the City Art Museum documents the purchase of this object, listed as "Number 223, Pottery Bowl, Mimbres" [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, May 11, 1944.
