NMNH A6212

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A6212

6/11/19

Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York. Collected by Dr. Hubbard, donated by Colonel Ezekiel Jewett, May 18th, 1868

Dark greenish gray with greenish black and yellowish gray banding

3.4

8

1.4

2

0.4

90.5

This Tube bannerstone is chipped and worn at both perforation edges and scratched over the entire surface. The lighter yellowish gray banding has a luminous quality especially on the oval side of the stone. In the NMNH manuscript it is identified as used “for straightening of arrows.”

6000-1000 BCE

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