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Title
A name given to the resource
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Description
An account of the resource
<span>The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (NMNH) is the second collection to be studied and added to the Archaic Bannerstone Project website. Of the 728 bannerstones in the NMNH collection, we have selected 32 that represent bannerstone types or materials not already included. Five of the bannerstones are plaster casts (A30224, A61057, A61508, A61509, A26977-1) that were meticulously shaped and painted in the late 19th or early 20th century. Three of the stones for these casts were temporarily loaned to the NMNH (A61057, A61508, A61509) by A.E. Douglass, who excavated them from a mound in southern Florida in 1871. Shortly after the casts were made, Douglass donated the original stones to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York. NMNH cast A61057 represents a Wisconsin Wing from this excavation, the original of which is missing from any known collection, making the cast the only visual and physical record remaining of the original bannerstone. Only in the case of A26977-1 does the NMNH also have the original stone (A26977) providing us with a rare opportunity to study and photograph the original porphyry granite Wisconsin Wing side by side with its cast. Other notable rare inclusions in this extensive collection are a partially-completed crystal bannerstone A34419. The Archaic-era sculptor of this Quartz Butterfly bannerstone appears to have attempted to expand their range to include a significantly harder, more translucent material which may account for why it was not drilled or completed. Also of note is A317061, a diorite Southern Ovate with exceedingly elegant, thin wings and an unusual spine carved with two narrow grooves, which attest to the visual acuity and skill of the sculptor. We include in this collection 317 photographs of the 32 original stone and plaster cast bannerstones. <br /><br />These images may be downloaded and used freely for teaching and personal use. Include the credit line “© Anna Blume, 2019, Courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution” along with the object’s Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the NMNH. For additional publishing questions, contact </span><a href="mailto:bannerstone@fitnyc.edu">bannerstone@fitnyc.edu</a><span>.</span>
Relation
A related resource
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
NMNH
Bannerstone
Bannerstones are carefully sculpted stones created across the eastern United States between 6000 BCE and 1000 BCE. More specifically, bannerstones were made from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico. American Indians carved and drilled these stones to be placed on a staff (thus the name given to them – bannerstone – in early 20th c. archeological literature, where they were assumed to be banners or emblems.)
BA#
For bannerstones submitted to and included on the ABP site, unique BA#’s will be designated.
62
Catalog or Accession #
A6212
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github_collection
nmnh-1
Date Studied
6/11/19
Bannerstone Type
For a list of bannerstone types please see the section on morphology on the ABP site.
Tube, Oval
Material
Please indicate igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, or more specific identification if possible.
Banded slate
Perforation
Perforated, Partially-Perforated, or Non-Perforated
Perforated
Condition
Whole, Broken, Fragment, or Preform
Whole
Find
Archaeological, or Non-Archaeological
Non-Archaeological
Provenance/Provenience
Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York. Collected by Dr. Hubbard, donated by Colonel Ezekiel Jewett, May 18th, 1868
Location
Cache, Burial, Midden, or Other
n/a
Color
Dark greenish gray with greenish black and yellowish gray banding
Width (cm)
3.4
Height (cm)
8
Diameter of Perforation (cm)
1.4
Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)
2
Depth at Edge (cm)
0.4
Weight (g)
90.5
Notes
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.”
Dublin Core
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Title
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NMNH A6212
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
6000-1000 BCE
Rights
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Images may be downloaded and used freely for teaching and personal use. Include the credit line “© Anna Blume, 2019, Courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution” along with the object’s Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the NMNH. For additional publishing questions, contact bannerstone@fitnyc.edu
Tube, Oval