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Crescent 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:

11.1 x 4 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

The Crescent bannerstone is masterfully carved with highly polished surface with several chips and worn at the perforations. “Ploughed up in a field” is written in ascension manuscript notes. “Pagodite or agalmatolite” is written in the manuscript to identify the stone type. Upon closer analysis this appears to be serpentinite that is commonly found in Virginia. Va is written on the stone with ascension number incised below.

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:

A61857

Identifier:

A61857d1

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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