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Geniculate type bannerstone

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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:

5.8 x 6.4 cm

Current site:

Washington, DC, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Description:

This Geniculate bannerstone is finely carved and polished surface with an anomalous grove along the short edge. On both sides of the rectangular lower surface of the stone there are purposefully carved indentations 4.0 cm across.

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:

A382339

Identifier:

A382339d1

Contributor:

Anna Blume

Collection:

FIT Bannerstone Project

Record created:

Nov. 8, 2019

Last modified:

Dec. 16, 2019

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