Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of mining engineer Roscoe P. Conkling (1877-1971) and possibly acquired by him between 1918 and 1926 while he worked in South America for a mining and smelting company; purchased by MAI from Roscoe Conkling in 1926.
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