NMNH A30191

About this Bannerstone

Collection

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

A30191

Date Studied

6/11/19

Provenance/Provenience

Mouth of the Illinois River, Illinois. Donated by H. J. Woodward from Dubuque Iowa on February 28th, 1877.

Location

n/a

Color

Dark orange with grayish white and dark red areas

Width (cm)

Height (cm)

6.4

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.4

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2.4

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.4

Weight (g)

117

Notes

There is an internal crack running from the upper spine to the lower edge of this well-shaped butterfly quartz. This is one of several bannerstones stolen from the NMNH collection sometime between 1972 and 1979 and then anomalously returned in the mail in 1995. Illinois, H. J. Woodward is written in faint, fading white paint on the stone.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

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 [email protected]

Citation

“NMNH A30191,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 25, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/224.

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