Object Details
- Collection History
- Purchased from Linus Logan (Cattaraugus Seneca) in 1907 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member); purchased by George Heye, presumably from Harrington's firm, Covert & Harrington, Commercial Ethnologists (New York City), in 1907.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Late Archaic Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Linus Logan, Seneca [Cattaraugus]
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Seller
- Covert & Harrington, Commercial Ethnologists
- Date created
- 3000–1000 BC (Late Archaic period)
- Object Name
- Birdstone (throwing stick/atlatl weight)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, drilled
- Object Type
- Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
