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Quartz Butterfly type bannerstone

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Date:

6000 - 1000 BCE

Culture:

Native American

Period:

Archaic (Native American)

Category:

archaeology

Type:

bannerstone

Subject:

bannerstones

Materials:

Ferruginous Quartz

Dimensions:

10 x 6.4 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

There is an internal crack running from the upper spine to the lower edge of this well-shaped butterfly quartz. This is one of several bannerstones stolen from the NMNH collection sometime between 1972 and 1979 and then anomalously returned in the mail in 1995. Illinois, H. J. Woodward is written in faint, fading white paint 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:

A30191

Identifier:

A30191d4

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

Collection Memberships

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