AMNH 1/1821

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

1/1821

Date Studied

9/20/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Mississippi. Donor Jackson D. Steward

Color

Dark orange, grayish white

Width (cm)

5.9

Height (cm)

7.5

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.5

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2.8

Depth at Edge (cm)

1.2

Weight (g)

161.9

Notes

This finely carved iconic Bottle-shaped bannerstone has signs of wear at either side of the perforation. W.H. Pell/Miss written on stone may indicate previous owner. Published in Knoblock (1939) Pl. 249, no. 5.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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Citation

“AMNH 1/1821,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed November 2, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/63.

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