Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents in 1919 during the Samuel Riker, Jr. New York State Expedition, led by Alanson B. Skinner (1886-1925, MAI staff member) and sponsored by MAI and MAI trustee Samuel Riker, Jr. (1868-1936).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Late Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Expedition
- Samuel Riker, Jr. New York State Expedition (1919)
- Expedition leader
- Alanson B. Skinner (A. B. Skinner/Alanson Buck Skinner), Non-Indian, 1886-1925
- Expedition sponsor
- Samuel Riker, Jr., Non-Indian, 1868-1936
- Date created
- 3000–1000 BC (Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Bannerstone part/fragment (throwing stick/atlatl weight)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
