Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Metropolitan Museum of Art Description An account of the resource The Metropolitan Museum of Art has five exquisite bannerstones housed within the Ancient American Art Collection in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing of the museum. Each stone is unique in shape and pristine in conservation, representing the aesthetic interests of Archaic-era stone sculptors. One of the bannerstones was acquired in 1954 by Nelson Rockefeller from the Julius Carlebach Gallery, which specialized in Surrealist and ethnographic works of art. Ten years later, in 1964, Rockefeller acquired another bannerstone from the collector George Terasaki who specialized in Indigenous arts of North America. The three additional bannerstones in The Met’s collection were a gift from Ralph T. Coe, who gave over 200 Indigenous American works of art to the museum. Two of the five bannerstones are hypertrophic (relatively large) in size and nearly twice the weight of most bannerstones, suggesting that they may have been used in performances or ceremonies. These five bannerstones, made between 6000 and 1000 BCE, are the oldest finely- carved lithics made in the Americas in The Met’s collection. 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, 2021, Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art” along with the object’s Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the MMA. For additional publishing questions, contact <a href="mailto:bannerstone@fitnyc.edu">bannerstone@fitnyc.edu</a> Relation A related resource https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l3ZOIPJiM5F7EoNKazG5wSG8rIUIx3NMi3AKZnZDcv0/edit?usp=sharing Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context MMA 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. 118 Catalog or Accession # 1979.206.1129 s3_path Path on S3 storage for iiif reference https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/826f8b9d-6772-42ca-a983-ac6f64757545-1979.206.1129.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/5cda877d-b855-4f1e-bca6-827f9b64669c-1979.206.1129a.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/436b623d-90a2-4077-b068-58d367edec4f-1979.206.1129b.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/d332a0da-729f-4193-8c62-4e4c2c7aa548-1979.206.1129d.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/d49821ad-a61e-4f3f-8479-f758addd1e59-1979.206.1129d1.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/a6dbbb34-2f7e-4f10-a64a-b7463e611a8d-1979.206.1129d2.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/237cf3d7-0900-4557-b287-a49281b3d952-1979.206.1129d3.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/e702f4ae-5105-4b80-825a-7f3787ce8ec1-1979.206.1129d4.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/c4e9ea26-c34a-4d58-b5ae-74b01713dfa5-1979.206.1129d5.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/12b98bb1-0925-49b1-aa1e-dab2d6118698-1979.206.1129d6.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/4924adf1-27d8-47e0-b3d5-d01ee77e9c10-1979.206.1129d7.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/7514327c-25b4-42d8-afa0-77cba22514b0-1979.206.1129d8.tif https://dip-access-bucket.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/packages/2b76/1f1b/379f/4bcc/97da/736c/59c6/d1ce/1979.206.1129-a58c4448-df27-4ac0-9084-6a0e71a3401c/objects/40464ed9-f3ab-40f4-adff-08a3beefe5fb-1979.206.1129d9.tif Date Studied 7/26/2023 Bannerstone Type For a list of bannerstone types please see the section on morphology on the ABP site. Butterfly, Single-Notched Material Please indicate igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, or more specific identification if possible. Phyllite Perforation Perforated, Partially-Perforated, or Non-Perforated Perforated Condition Whole, Broken, Fragment, or Preform Whole Find Archaeological, or Non-Archaeological Non-Archaeological Provenance/Provenience Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio. Acquired by Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1964 from George Terasaki, New York. On loan to the Museum of Primitive Art, New York from 1964-1978. Since 1979 in The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Location Cache, Burial, Midden, or Other Other Color Greenish black, with off-white inclusions Width (cm) 15.2 Height (cm) 7 Diameter of Perforation (cm) 1.1 Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm) 1.6 Depth at Edge (cm) 0.2 Weight (g) 121.59 Notes The matte greenish black phyllite stone of this Single-Notched Butterfly bannerstone has fine, barely perceptible dark banding and cloudy off-white inclusions that would have drawn the attention of an Archaic sculpture who carved the symmetrical flanges into thin wings that are slightly bowed. The sculptor accentuated the center with a pointed ridge parallel to where they drilled a hole for hafting onto a shaft. The flanges of this bannerstone are exceedingly thin and difficult to achieve, testament to the experience and aesthetic sensibility of the sculptor. There are chips along the edges and perforation, signs of use in the Archaic period. On the inner side of the notch 1979.206.1129 is written in red. On one side of the stone Tiffin, Ohio is written in white, referring to a city in Seneca County where this bannerstone was presumably found and first collected in the 19th or early 20th Century. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MMA 1979.206.1129 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 6000-1000 BCE Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <br />This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License</a> These images may be downloaded and used freely for teaching and personal use. Include the credit line "© Anna Blume, 2021, Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" along with the object's Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the MMA. For additional publishing questions, contact <a href="mailto:bannerstone@fitnyc.edu">bannerstone@fitnyc.edu</a>. Butterfly, Single-Notched