NMNH A61057
(Plaster Cast)

72

A61057

6/11/19

Tomoka Creek, Volusa County, Florida. Excavated by A.E. Douglass. This cast entered into the NMNH collection on February 10th, 1883.

Pale olive on one side and olive gray on the other, presumably painted to match the original stone

13.2

10.4

1.4

2.3

0.3

84.8

This is a cast of a now lost bannerstone that was originally excavated along with seven other bannerstones by A. E. Douglass in 1871. Published in “A Find of Ceremonial Axes in a Florida Mound,” The American Antiquarian (1882): 100-109; and in Bruce John Piatek, “The Tomoka Mound Complex in Northeastern Florida,” Southeastern Archaeology Winter (1994) 109-118. All eight bannerstones were loaned to the NMNH on December 4th 1881 and retuned to Douglass on March 13th, 1882. Only three of the eight casts were entered into the NMNH collection. Florida is written on the cast that is chipped in a few places revealing the plaster beneath the painted surface. Argillite is written in the manuscript to identify the original now lost stone.

6000-1000 BCE

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