Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or excavated by Captain Robert R. Bennett (1865-1933, a Washington, DC, attorney and explorer) during travel in Cuba in 1932 ; donated to MAI by Captain Bennett in 1932.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Archaic Age (Ortoiroid) (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- Collector
- Captain Robert R. Bennett (Robert Root Bennett), Non-Indian, 1865-1933
- Donor
- Captain Robert R. Bennett (Robert Root Bennett), Non-Indian, 1865-1933
- Date created
- 4000 BC-AD 1500
- Object Name
- Hammerstone
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Pecked, ground
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
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