Plummet
97-563-10727
From: North America | United States of America | Maine | Hancock County (Maine) | Mount Desert (uncertain) | Blue Hill (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-563-10727 |
| 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 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. |
| 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 |
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