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Agate from St. Iago de Cuba

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

April 18, 1807

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 21

Notes:

Agate is cryptocrystalline quartz. Museums now label agate specimens as quartz (variety agate).

Santiago de Cuba is the capital of Cuba's southeastern Santiago de Cuba Province, facing a bay off the Caribbean Sea.