NMNH A61058
(Plaster Cast)

73

A61058

6/11/19

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

Light olive gray with flecks of black and white

12.6

10.6

1.3

2.2

0.3

108.6

This is a cast of a now lost bannerstone 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. Diorite is written in the manuscript. This bannerstone is very similar to AMNH D/142. The diameter of the perforation of this stone is smaller and there is no dark brown band 1.6 cm from the edge, a detail the cast makers would most likely have included had this been a cast of D/142.

6000-1000 BCE

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