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Date:

6000 - 1000 BCE

Culture:

Native American

Period:

Archaic (Native American)

Category:

archaeology

Type:

bannerstone

Subject:

bannerstones

Materials:

Banded slate

Dimensions:

18.7 x 3.4 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

The Pick bannerstone was broken diagonally across the perforation either because the stone is weakest at the perforation or because it was intentionally broken as is common with bannerstones during the Archaic period. The break is along the banding which might indicate that it was struck at the perforation and broke in a perfect oval along the banding. At some point after it was broken, possibly in the Archaic period, two holes were drilled to repair the stone with some kind of plug. Both pieces were additionally glued with adhesive presumably in the 19th century. Mrs. A. E. Frazar is written 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:

A172311

Identifier:

A172311d7

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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