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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:

Banded slate

Dimensions:

18.7 x 5.2 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This stone was finely carved and polished to compliment the concentric natural banding of the slate stone. There is a 0.1 ridge carved at the spine on one side similar to AMNH DN/128. The stone has some abraded areas and was broken at the spine either because the stone is weakest at the thin surface of the spine or because it was intentionally broken at the spine as is common with bannerstones during the Archaic period. The two pieces of the stone were glued back together with a pitch-like substance, presumably in the 19th century. Both of the finely carved thin tips of the stone are broken; one side has been repaired. B.B. Kellogg and Conn. are written on the stone. 11528 is incised next to the perforation. Published in Knoblock (1939) Pl. 230, no. 4.

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:

A11528

Identifier:

A11528d6

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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