Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Samuel Ward Loper (1834-1910, a museum curator and geologist); presented by him to the Long Island Historical Society in 1888; lent by the Long Island Historical Society to MAI in 1921; donated to NMAI by the Brooklyn Historical Society in 2020.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Samuel Ward Loper, Non-Indian, 1834-1910
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Donor
- Long Island Historical Society (Brooklyn Historical Society [after 1985])
- Date created
- 6000–1000 BC (Middle to Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Gouge
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground
- Object Type
- Woodworking tools
