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Barreled Rectangular type bannerstone

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Date:

6000 - 1000 BCE

Culture:

Native American

Period:

Archaic (Native American)

Category:

archaeology

Type:

bannerstone

Subject:

bannerstones

Materials:

Granitoid, coarse-grained

Dimensions:

8.2 x 10.8 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This is an undrilled igneous preform from the collection of Cyrus Thomas who extensively mapped Native American mounds of the Mississippi for the US Bureau of American Ethnology beginning in 1882. 91 Thomas is written on a small square white label adhered to the surface of the stone next to the spine on one side.

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:

A71602

Identifier:

A71602d

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

Collection Memberships

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