AMNH DM/265

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

DM/265

Date Studied

9/13/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Michigan. Donor A.E. Douglass, purchased from O. A. Jewison on July 24th, 1881

Color

Olive gray with grayish black banding

Width (cm)

19.5

Height (cm)

7.2

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.2

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2.3

Depth at Edge (cm)

Weight (g)

308.7

Notes

The curved surface of this bannerstone is carved in relation to the natural asymmetrical banding of the stone. There is a gash on the curved edge of the surface and a deep scar on the face of the stone. Published in Knoblock (1939) Pl. 226, no. 3.

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 DM/265,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed February 5, 2023, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/97.

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