Plummet
| Object Number: | 97-563-10727 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Red Paint People |
| Provenience: | 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 |
| Height: | 3.2 cm |
| Length: | 10.4 cm |
| Width: | 3.4 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number: | L-563-10727 - Old Museum Number 28798 - ANSP Number |
Description
This object is a lithic and is four inches long. Both the ANSP and loan numbers are visible and placed on the base of the lithic. It is dark gray, symmetrical, and smooth, to the point of the lithic being shiny. It tapers to a rounded tip on one end and rounded tip with a pierced hole on another. There are two horizontal carving marks visible.
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