Plummet
97-563-10720
From: North America | United States of America | Maine | Hancock County (Maine) | Mount Desert (uncertain) | Blue Hill (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-563-10720 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Red Paint People |
| Provenience | North America | United States of America | Maine | Hancock County (Maine) | Mount Desert (uncertain) | Blue Hill (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Locus | grave |
| Period | Late Archaic | Maritime Archaic | Moorehead Phase |
| Date Made | 3000 BCE - 1000 BCE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Serpentine |
| Technique | Pecked |
| Description | This object is a lithic and is 3 ¾ inches long. Both the ANSP and loan numbers are visible on the base. There are no discernable faces because it is rounded and smoothed. There is a series of long, raking gouges going down the length of the lithic. The lithic narrows to a small knob on one end. It is gray with red stains. |
| Height | 2.9 cm |
| Length | 9.4 cm |
| Width | 3.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-563-10720 - Old Museum Number | 28789 - ANSP Number |
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