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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:

Pyrophyllite metamorphic rock

Dimensions:

8.4 x 4.3 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This Crescent bannerstone has signs of wear at the perforations and a prominent gash on one side similar to that on NMNH A7122. A slight indentation is craved and smoothed on one side of the stone centered on perforation. 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. Pagodite or Agalmatolite” is written in the ascension manuscript. Upon closer analysis this appears to be a Pyrophyllite rock.

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

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A115871

Identifier:

A115871

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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