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Curved Pick type bannerstone

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Date:

6000 - 1000 BCE

Culture:

Native American

Period:

Archaic (Native American)

Category:

archaeology

Type:

bannerstone

Subject:

bannerstones

Materials:

Serpentinite

Dimensions:

17.4 x 3.9 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This Curved Pick bannerstone is finely carved and highly polished with one tip broken with no patina along the surface of the break suggesting that the break might have occurred in the 19th c. when the stone was found. There is also a curved gash along the surface of one side similar to the gash on AMNH 13/105; both gashes may have been inadvertently caused by metal agricultural tools. Madison Co Va A. G. Grinnan is written on the stone.

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, 2019, Courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution” along with the object’s Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the NMNH. For additional publishing questions, contact bannerstone@fitnyc.edu

Additional views:

A7122

Identifier:

A7122b

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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