AMNH DN/234

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DN/234

Date Studied

2/17/2017

Provenance/Provenience

East Bryant (Arkansas?). Donor A.E. Douglass, bought from Bango & Co. “Woodwords Sale” auction August 27-29 for $0.84.

Width (cm)

14.4

Height (cm)

9.3

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

n/a

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

0.8

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.3

Weight (g)

131.5

Notes

This finely carved, exceedingly thin Double-Notched Butterfly shaped stone is not and could not be perforated, as other bannerstones were, due to the thinness of the carving across its entire surface. This raises questions about how its use or meaning may have differed from other bannerstones. The entire surface, front and back are incised with script.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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Citation

“AMNH DN/234,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 25, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/114.

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