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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:

Diorite, fine-grained

Dimensions:

14 x 13 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This finely carved and polished Southern Ovate bannerstone has a square spine on one side and an unusual spine carved with two narrow grooves on the other side of the spine. The wings of the stone are thinned to 0.2 cm. This is one of sixty-five objects accessioned into the NMNH collection from A. C. Schench. Fla. 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:

A317061

Identifier:

A317061d6

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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