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Oval Tube type bannerstone
Title:
Oval Tube type bannerstone
Date:
6000 - 1000 BCE
Culture:
Native American
Period:
Archaic (Native American)
Category:
archaeology
Type:
bannerstone
Subject:
bannerstones
Materials:
Banded slate
Dimensions:
3.4 x 8 cm
Current site:
Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Description:
This Tube bannerstone is chipped and worn at both perforation edges and scratched over the entire surface. The lighter yellowish gray banding has a luminous quality especially on the oval side of the stone. In the NMNH manuscript it is identified as used “for straightening of arrows.”
Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Images may be downloaded and used freely for teaching and personal use. Include the credit line “© Anna Blume, 2017, Courtesy of the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History” along with the object’s Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the AMNH. For additional publishing questions, contact bannerstone@fitnyc.edu
Additional views:
A6212
Identifier:
A6212d3
Contributor:
Anna Blume
Collection:
FIT Bannerstone Project
Record created:
Nov. 8, 2019
Last modified:
Dec. 16, 2019
Collection Memberships
Collection | Visible |
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FIT Bannerstone Project | yes |
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