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Southern Ovate type bannerstone

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Date:

6000 - 1000 BCE

Culture:

Native American

Period:

Archaic (Native American)

Category:

archaeology

Type:

bannerstone

Subject:

bannerstones

Materials:

Porphory Diorite, fine-grained with large pieces of feldspar

Dimensions:

10 x 13 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This Southern Ovate is a preform with no perforation. Both sides of the spine are squared one measuring 1.5cm the other 2.4cm. This is one of 3,215 objects found and collected by Steiner. “From Davis Plantation (Old Evans Place on the Southside of Buckhead Creek,” written in the ascension manuscript, presumably where this stone was found.

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:

A171389

Identifier:

A171389d

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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